In a day when so many are trying so hard to have so much control, we just want influence. We don’t want to have meetings and votes and arguments and lawsuits and power struggles. We just want influence.
We want to influence non-Christians to meet Jesus Christ and begin their eternity-altering walk with Him.
We want to influence Christians to grow in their love for Jesus, Scripture, God’s mission in the world, and God’s portion of that mission through their local church.
We want to influence Christian leaders to humbly persevere by God’s grace and know something of the joy of the Holy Spirit.
We want to influence churches to hope for more, plan for more, and demand more because Jesus is alive and that fact changes everything.
influence is what Christ gave to His Church when He commissioned them with ALL-AUTHORITY… The goal of every Christ follower with every minute of every day should be to terminate that influence on a dead world.
Christ in Christians is the HOPE OF GLORY….
The rub on this whole truth is that too many Christ-followers are terminating their influence on temporal things… temporal relationships…. temporal political parties…. temporal careers… temporal bank accounts…
ETERNAL AUTHORITY was giving to empower ETERNAL INFLUENCE… Let’s not waste Today!
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