An Interview worth the read

In our ministry blog Fuel Movements I post an excellent interview with Neil Cole, author of Organic Church.

If you haven't read the book, it is a must read. To get a teaser check out the Interview in Next Wave

Categories: Books

Booh Mainstream Media

You know the mainstream media is biased when you see articles/stats like this.
Hmm. This seems to go against what I tell my kids daily. Read, read, read.

A Special Anointing

I drove into the driveway last night from my time in Mexico and I noticed our house had a special anointing.

Made it Home

Our trip ended wonderfully. God put many things on my heart and it has been an adventure to bring those before Him and share them with Christine and the kids. It is so good to be home. I actually lucked out and jumped on an earlier flight out of Chicago (why did we fly from Mexico to Chicago: that's another story.) That earlier flight got me home around 11pm instead of 1am. Yeah.

I went into Isa's room and then the boys. It was so good to look at them and just see them sleeping peacefully. Oh the blessings of these kids.

Today, a day of rest and catching up, processing Mexico and getting ready for another trip next Friday. I'm officiating a good friends wedding in LosAngeles. Traveling again, but this trip is with the whole family and we'll be able to spend some time with my family during Thanksgiving. Yeah.

Wrapping it up in Mexico

We're staying in the Radisson in Mexico City; very nice place. Yesterday we actually stayed here in the lobby wrap some of our discussions and dreams for this mega city. What we're part of is City Reach. How can we as CCC give leadership to the mega cities of the world so that God does something amazing. We're not talking about incremental growth over 10 years but a rapid infussion of God's spirit that will awaken these cities. It is captivating to talk and pray for Mexico City and see what God could do. We ended up giving a bit of a plan before the launch date of Sept 1, 2006. We need a learning leading team to oversee all the teams, pastors, ministries that will take part of this effort.

Then to my surprise we headed to some neighborhoods to see what family living could look like. It actually could work for a family if a few of the logistics are solved. The biggest element to see something like this work for a family is if it is God's will then it will be just fine.

After visiting some neighborhoods we headed off to the Zocolo (the center of town.) We met the stint teams and the rest of our crew and headed up to the coolest tower in the city. You could see all of it from the 46th floor. Wow. I was impressed as we read Isaiah 40 while we were up there and then prayed. I was struck by how large this city is yet I'm even more encouraged by the God I love and serve is larger, more powerful and holds this massive place in his hands. God is good and is going to do an amazing thing here. It's going to take a super mobile, rapid changing, God responding leadership team to partner with all the different aspects of reaching this city. This is exactly what God can do and will do. Not wait on human efforts that see predictable, incremental growth over a 10-20 year period, but something supernatural.

We ended the night in great festive Mexican style. We landed in a restaurant with huge mariachi bands; some of the best I have ever heard. Wow, what an experience.

I'm grateful for my time here. There's something going on around the world. I don't want to miss it. I want to live radical faith. We'll see what God has in store.