This was the second week in my congregation’s month-long worship journey through the theme of “Contagious Christianity.” Today’s message focused on the importance of living a “High-Potency” faith. As Bill Hybels of Willow Creek Church puts it, “We must be good news before we can share good news.”
This is a topic about which I feel a fair amount of passion, and I’d like to think that the way in which I developed and delivered the sermon reflects that. However, it’s hard sometimes to know if I’m getting through. I’ve got a wonderful congregation, and many of the people within it would eagerly go out of their way to serve and bless others (a key ingredient, I think, in ‘high-potency’ faith). Still…there are those moments…standing up in the pulpit and looking out at faces that seem to show too little evidence of ‘holy fire’…that I begin to wonder: am I the right man for the job?
What examples have you seen of ‘high-potency’ faith? What about ‘high-potency’ congregations? Would you lift up a little prayer for me and my church–that we would become those people?
Are you the right man for the job? WE are all the right man for the job. WE are all called to follow Christ with love, compassion and suffering. You are doing that, right? Will you get through to all the blank stares in the congregation? No more chance of that, than my teenage girls following the advice I give them every day. —
High potency faith — I would tend to think there is high potency faith is in you. The faith to believe that God has placed you there so that you might be the example to those around you. The faith to keep studying scripture and the teaching of other scholars so that you may be filled with the knowledge to make a difference to one or two or 75.
High Potency congregations- — I think there are ebbs and flows in churches. Jesus did preach, but his most memorable work seems to be one on one. Maybe there are times when a preacher’s work is best done one on one. I don’t claim to know. It’s just a thought from a guy that’s skeptical about the ability for a rural rev to turn a whole congregation from traditional thinking into semi-Pentecostal street evangelist that work part time for the
Salvation Army, (So I exaggerate to make a point) but from what I read, you are doing your part. (I read week one and two) You never know whom you might influence.
As a matter of fact, I will be on a HFH jobsite Saturday.
Blessings