Our Commission

We had a leadership conference in Leatherhead today with Chris Caine and Frank Damazzio. It was three sessions of pure gold. My mind is still reeling from all the amazing things that were said. I honestly love that we can be a part of a church that is so bent on seeing people grow and flourish in life and their walk with God. I also love how leadership in church completely turns the normal perspective of leadership on its head.

Look at the normal 'leadership pyramid'. You have a pyramid, divided into layers, and as you climb higher on the pyramid you have a higher position of leadeship and the very top, the peak of the pyramid would be the highest position attainable. Basically traditional leadership would have you believe that the higher you climb the more people you have to serve you. In church, however, you literally turn the pyramid upside down so that the higher you climb on the pyramid, the more you actually serve people. You are a leader not to be served but to serve.

Frank spoke about the church in Acts 2, how they were the first church, the benchmark if you will. The church of today has a responsibility to become the church again. For a very long time now church has completely lost its relevancy. It became all about rituals and religious traditions and forgot that we are Christ's bride set on earth to reach a lost and broken world. It is our responsibility to build God's house the way he intended it to be. Wow. That's big. Huge, in fact, but exciting at the same time. After us, it's the rapture. The end. Are we sharing Jesus with our world? Are we actually IN the world that we are trying to reach? Are we giving people the opportunity to experience life and freedom that comes from knowing Jesus as their saviour? If we aren't we are NOT really being the church because you cannot seperate Jesus from his church.

Well, there you have it. Our responsibility: The Great Commission: Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

It doesn't get any clearer than that, now does it?