Planning for God’s Power
This morning I was reading the swerve blog when one of the questions on their “10 questions” series caught my eye. It said this to church leaders:
“Is our vision so big that we obviously can’t accomplish it without God?” -Craig Groeschel
This statement really got me thinking about something my dad asked me this past weekend. We were sitting at a local restaurant having dinner and amidst normal conversation about Horizon’s upcoming launch he asked, “Do you have any goals or expectation about how many people you will have over a certain time line?” And as I started to give him the normal answer of, “we really have no idea,” I just blurted out what I felt God could do. I told him that I think we can launch the church in September with twice as many people as we have now, and that we expect to reach ten times that amount over the first two years.
As many people would have my dad responded, “Isn’t that a little too ambitious?” And my only response was YES! It is too ambitious for me! But it’s not to ambitious for God! If these last 6 months of planning and preparing have taught me anything it is this. My talents, my abilities, my connections, my knowledge, and my courage have NOTHING to do with the success of this church. It doesn’t depend on any person withing the organization. It depends only on God, and for that reason I will continue to plan for and expect God to do things that I perceive to be impossible.
Maybe we should spend more time planning for God’s power to move within our lives, and our churches and less time planning for what we think we can accomplish alone.
