Simple Vision!

How do we Reach (1), Teach (2), and Release (3) Hurting People through the Power of Jesus Christ?  Check the chart.  It's simple but it works.  Let's do it!!! :)

 

CRCC Vision Process
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
Below are some distinictives/ministry thrusts we use to execute our vision, and hopefully change a bit of the world in the process! :)

1. Solid Hermeneutics - the Right Perspective

  • A solid belief that the Bible is God’s Word and a real understanding that His Word is about Him and not us gives us the right worldview.
  • From here, we passionately study Scripture and just as passionately do what it says.
  • Our way of interpreting Scripture puts the focus back on God and what He loves and wants!
  • This is world changing!!!!!

2. Contentment & Integrity- the Right Heart

  • An acceptance that character is more important than success, that "how" is just as important as "what," that who we are on the inside is more important to God than what we have on the outside is critical!
  • We are attempting to release men and women of integrity into the Kingdom…people who are not ashamed to live by God’s Word as it is without manipulation!
  • These kinds of people will give of themselves but stuff isn’t that important! These kinds of people will see their lives as an offering for Christ! These kinds of people will not spend their days in pursuit of pleasures, but will live a "poured-out" life!!!!
  • This is world-changing!!!!!!!!!!!

3. "Jesus is Enough" – the Right Path

  • What else is there? What else can be the message of Christ’s church other than Christ?
  • If we want to change the world, we cannot do it through the power of business, or the power of sports, or the power of marketing, or the power politics. These things are important to be sure; but disconnect them from the power of Jesus Christ and they lose their Kingdom power!
  • People who understand that this whole thing is about Christ are world-changers!!!!!!!!!!
  • He alone is the source of our salvation, our joy, our peace, or hope, and our ministry. He alone is "the Word" who was with God and is God! And He is coming back to judge!

4. Financial Peace and Debt Freedom – the Right Preparation

  • This is HUGE!!!! I pray you do not think we push so hard here for a BMW or better house.
  • Momentum asks: "What could the people of God do for the Kingdom of God if they were debt free?"
  • How many children could you feed? How many orphanages could you support? How many people could you put through college? How many single parents could you bless?
  • Enough already debt for stuff!!!! Your resources need to be free for the KINGDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • But please understand, there is no certain "point" you have to get to to begin be a blessing. Begin now!
  • Financially strong, Kingdom-minded people are world-changers!!!!!!! They impact the Kingdom with money and glorify God!

5. Marriage and Family and Discipling our Children – the Right Foundation

  • In most situations, good ministry flows from a solid home life.
  • Not only that, but as we’ve discussed many times recently, we are called to raise Godly children. How can we change the world if we can’t change our homes?
  • So we push and push for singles, married’s, and parents to:
  1. Obey God’s word on marriage, single-life and family
  2. Live in purity, pushing worldly and ungodly influences out of our homes
  3. Develop a family covenant
  4. Have family devotions and worship
  5. Catechize the children
  6. Serve together
  • This will change the world!!!! Can you imagine unleashing radically saved children into the Kingdom??? I CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6. Apologetics and Evangelism – the Right Focus

  • Share the Gospel! Preach the Gospel! Teach the Gospel! No MORE FEAR!!!
  • Open your home! Be hospitable!! Change the world!
  • Keep seeking to understand the Word and know how to defend it. It IS under assault.
  • We cannot change the world if we hold the most precious news in creation to ourselves.
  • Gospel preachers (YOU!!) change the world!!!!!!!!!!

7. Missions, and ministry to widows and orphans – the Right Ministry

  • By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him. (1Jn 3:16-19 ESV)
  • Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. (Isa 1:17 ESV)
  • Can you imagine something closer to God’s heart; that reflects the ministry heart of Christ more?
     

 

Hell's Best Kept Secret

This is a powerful video and does a good job explaining what I've been trying to say concerning evangelism.  We played it in church today.  Friends, now is the time to do 3 things very passionately:

1.  Continue the work of touching the hurting through sound and loving Bible preaching, helping widows and orphans, and pushing the D6 Reformation and training fathers.

2.  Pray!

3.  Share our faith and disciple others like never before!

Let's Change the World! :)

 

Repentance for LIFE

Last night, I had the honor to lead prayer during the Crisis Pregnancy Center's "Prayer for LIFE" event in Norfolk.  My responsiblity was to lead the confession and repentance section of the prayer time.  Here is what I prayed...

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Crisis Pregnancy Center Prayer for LIFE
Dr. McLeod leading in the area of Confession and Repentance
Sept 29, 2011

Friends, it is an honor to be before you today. I’m humbled to be able to lead us in the area of repentance.  Every great revival always starts in a prostrate position because God’s people, by the prompting of His Spirit, realize areas in which we have failed and fallen away from God’s standards.  When the church repents, she positions herself to be used powerfully by God. Let’s read a few verses of Scripture, and then pray….

Psa 51:1-10 ESV
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. (2) Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! (3) For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. (4) Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. (5) Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. (6) Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. (7) Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. (8) Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. (9) Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. (10) Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

2Ch 7:13-15 ESV
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, (14) if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (15) Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

Confession and Repentance:
1.  Father, we repent of allowing this holocaust.

  • We repent of allowing the offering of 53,000,000 (53 Million!!!) little lives to Molech since Roe vs. Wade.  We repent. We can and should do more to save the lives of those who cannot fight for themselves.
  • Lev 18:21 ESV - You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
  • It has been said that. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."  There is so much truth in that phrase.
  • God, you declare, “The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil” (Pro 8:13), and “Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good” (Ro 12:9).
  • Lord, forgive us for not doing so to the point where we act.

2.  Father, we repent of allowing politics to keep us off the battlefield.

  • We repent of placing economic gain and self-interests above your Word.
  • We repent of believing one thing and doing another.  We repent of not loving what you love and hating what you hate.  We repent of not considering your wishes and commands when it’s time to fight for the unborn.
  • We repent of not engaging the culture with the truth that “life is not a choice; but rather it is a gift from You.”

3.  Father we repent of raising our children largely without a biblical worldview.

  • Lord, we know that children raised with a biblical worldview are 100 times less likely to condone abortion.
  • We repent of allowing a generation of children to doubt your Word!
  • We repent of allowing the Government to teach our children unbiblical values.
  • We repent of not allowing the Lordship of Christ to invade and permeate every area of our lives, including the discipleship of the minds of our youth, who grow up in our homes and churches and increasingly still consider life a choice.

4.  Father, on behalf of America’s churches and Christians, we repent of simply being afraid to speak.

  • Intuitively and biblically, we know that “everyone who desires to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”
  • We know that to stand for you means enduring the hatred of the world and the world system.
  • And too often, we have cowered, preferring instead the path of least resistance, messages about breakthrough and our personal dreams being fulfilled

5.  And Father, we repent for not taking better care of those who have experienced the pain of abortion. We repent of not being there for them in real, tangible ways, helping them deal with their grief and giving them the hope of your cross that they might be healed and have joy.

We ask your forgiveness in all these areas and we pray for your guidance going forward, that in all things, You alone might receive the glory.

Master, please receive our heartfelt repentance. We not only declare we are sorry…but we pledge to turn from these areas of wickedness and sin, and to do our best to cause our Nation to turn as well.

In Jesus Great Name we pray,
Amen
 

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