Leadership Building

May 7, 2010
Karen Cress,a Seventh Adventist Church trainer, has stated that "leadership is building relationships, period".
Several LMCC leaders and members met to pray about the church's financial circumstances.  Importantly, the B90 project has proved to be a "God-send" in that now a rather large percentage of our current church has prepared itself for this urgent, financial reality, while it was yet, non-urgent.  Informed with the broad knowledge we've acquired throught the Word, we can now get down to the serious business of first ansering the question, "We are a church, what are we becoming?"  Without immediate, significant doing, we will not be a corporate, non-profit church but a scattered array of private individuals culturing "church" within themselves.

Pastor Bill spoke of this last week in his sermon.  He stated he become depressed when he suddenly realized in seminary that after 30 years of being a christian, that he'd been a diest, not a theist.  (He explains "diest" as experiencing God "out there" while a "theist" experiences God "living within".)  As diests, it seems likely, as individual Christians to suddenly experience that same cold, dark, place, waiting to swallow us up in great depression, unless we become true theists.  In which case, we would not depend on any building for "our" church, we'd be carrying it with us, "praying ceaselessly" throughout every day until the day the Lord calls us home, which may turn out to be ...today.

Of course, we'd have everything in order for those who were left; for us no church service would be longer necessary. We'd be gone.  Oh, we might leave a mother, a wife, a child, some family, but if we'd been effective and responsible in our lives, they would all be "O.K.".  Pause and think about it.  This may be an opportunity for us to become "doors".  Check out James 1 if you're ready to become proactive in church.  Building relationships might first involve building one with your self, before joining together with one another to become a "church" where "two or more get together in My name".

B90 has prepared a significant core of LMCC for this very moment.