What is the Next Assignment?

What is the assignment? We all have an assignment. Sometimes those are for a season, some longer than others. Jenny and I have been taking time to lean into God for His heart for our next assignment. Wow! It is like God is all over this!! Speaking to not only us, but throughout the Body of Christ, that the mission of the church is not to be embodied by a group of elite chosen leaders who declare vision at the head of the charge, but servant leaders who have vision to serve the body — that they may see and know Jesus, discover their callings, come into maturity, and be launched into what God has called them to.

This is the end-time Bride that is being made ready! There is just too much work in the days ahead for an elite few to try and disciple and raise up the masses. It requires all of us passionately seeking Jesus with all of our hearts and being obedient to what He has called us to!

There needs to be and there is going to be a fresh wave of Jesus-centered, discipleship-making, multiplying churches to the nations as we have never seen before! This is on the heart of God! That is where EQUIPPING comes in.

If you haven’t heard already, next week we will start an online 5-week course entitled “What is Church?” We have two groups to serve the different time zones, one geared towards the United States and the other in Europe. We are excited to explore discipleship and church in the context of the life and ministry of Jesus and the early church. We are believing that as we go deeper, it will spark in all of us “next steps” in being salt and light with lasting fruit!

I am writing this blog from a restaurant in Manitou Springs. You may have read how God put this community in ours hearts. Sometimes it just looks like showing up and being somewhere, even when you don’t have “the plan.” In Matthew 10:7-8, Jesus said that “as you go,” and that is what faith often looks like. Obedience, even when it does not necessarily make sense, knowing that as you take a step in the direction of God’s leading, He will tell you what to do next.

“Your ears will hear a word behind you, ‘This is the way, walk in it,’ whenever you turn to the right or to the left” (Isaiah 30:21).

If you have felt useless, on the sidelines, or frustrated…I can confidently tell you that God is not done with you! This is just the beginning!! God is looking for people with fresh ears to hear what the Spirit is saying. People are in need of relational connection and the gospel lived out and displayed in a way that makes sense to the many complexities of life. For such a time as this (Esther 4:14) , you and us…we are here! Not just taking up space trying to survive, holding on for Jesus to come back, but leaning into the mess of this world that we live in with the love and presence of Jesus!

Again and again…we are thankful for YOU…the family, friends, partners, prayer warriors, and those on your own journey who have felt for some reason or another to be connected to and follow our journey! It is our hearts desire to live in a way that provokes you to go deeper with Jesus and tap into all that He has for you, your family, and the community around you.

There is so much more that God has been speaking to us about the future, but in this moment and in this space, we live! And we are excited about what He is doing and saying and how we can walk with Him!