God’s movement among “The Next” now!

I was hang­ing with the Sr. High Youth tonight and saw kids respond­ing to the move­ment of God in their lives.  Some were seek­ing prayer for tough things, other were ask­ing good ques­tions, each had the oppor­tu­nity to pray with a leader who loved and cared for them.  I can tell you there are few things cooler than see­ing the next gen­er­a­tion respond­ing now.  I praise God that our lead­er­ship is care­fully lis­ten­ing to and respond­ing to His lead­ing in reach­ing the kids He is bring­ing to us.  Cause each of these young ones has some­thing to add now.  That is some­thing I have been learn­ing daily, it is both hum­bling and exciting.

It was not too long ago, I was one who was mak­ing Sr. Pas­tors and Elder boards ner­vous with new ideas and opti­mism about what it takes to reach this next gen­er­a­tion.  Prob­a­bly still am mak­ing some peo­ple ner­vous.  But now I am the one who is ner­vous, which is inter­est­ing.  I am learn­ing to get out of the way, let go, equip, and encour­age what is com­ing.  Because I really believe the best is yet to come.  God is really doing some­thing cool, and I am excited to see MCC be a part of it.

Pray with me that this next gen­er­a­tion would con­tinue to respond and God’s Spirit would con­tinue to move among them.  Pray for their lead­er­ship to con­tinue to push the enve­lope doing what­ever it takes to reach this gen­er­a­tion for Jesus.  Pray for me and the other lead­ers at MCC for wis­dom in how we encour­age, empower, and engage this move­ment now.  May God be glo­ri­fied by His mighty and sur­pris­ing work among us.

P.S. Thank you to all of you who are serv­ing and sac­ri­fic­ing for our youth.  You are mak­ing a big time impact

Because together, young and old, new and mature, regard­less of where we come from, what’s hap­pened or who we are; we all ben­e­fit by expe­ri­ence the image and pres­ence of God together in His move­ment called the Church