You need to know what God has on His agenda for your church, community, and nation at this time in history. Then you and your church can adjust your lives to God, so that He can move you into the mainstream of His activity before it is too late. Though God likely will not give you a detailed schedule, He will let you know one step at a time how you and your church need to respond to what He is doing.
I read that in the 1990s. That was the first time I remember encountering this concept. Sometime later, I read The Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren. In it, he states, "Our job as church leaders, like experienced surfers, is to recognize a wave of God's Spirit and ride it. It is not our responsibility to make waves but to recognize how God is working in the world and join him in the endeavor."Last month I began rereading a book I had just finished reading, The Contemplative Pastor, by Eugene Peterson. I came upon this statement on page 4: "The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it and participate and take delight in it."
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