Over the past 2.5 days I’ve had the opportunity to be at a conference for church leaders. It was made up of a combination of ministers who have both been serving for years (decades really) and those who are still in their early years of ministry. Much of the discussion revolved around what the church was going to need to do in order to deliver the “Good News of Christ” as our culture continues to change and move away from Jesus. Questions of, “How does the church stay relevant? How do we raise up people who are committed to the Word of God and the cause of Christ? How do we challenge the church to live and speak from both a state of truth and a state of love?” There were some incredible discussions, a few disagreements, lots of laughs, and an incredible sense that God is still at work.
And that is what struck me. There I sat in the room with people serving from the coasts of California to the shores of Maryland, from the country of Canada to the southern most parts of Florida and Texas and God was just as much at work in those churches as He is ours. Lives are changing in Washington, Illinois, Idaho, and Tennessee, and our God is orchestrating it all (simultaneously). While we worry and fret about what’s taking place in our city, our church, and our community God is redeeming people in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and more.
How easily we forget that God is always at work. How easily we forget that God is able to do immeasurebly more than we could ever imagine. How easily we forget that God is overseeing the harvest and that the fields are ripe. How easily we forget.
