Rhythm Week 1

Influence

Came across this post on my good friend Brad Cooper's blog thought I would share it with you all...

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!

The Skinny on Life Groups

The Motion Project

The direction has been set and we're inviting you to get on board! Let's start the MOTION! For more info on the Motion Project and how you can contribute, visit http://barefootchurch.com/page/105/MotionProject

Fruit

"Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions." -Matthew 7:20

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Motion Week 1

071109 Motion from Barefoot Church on Vimeo.

Investment

Matthew 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

The disciples were invested in, so they could then invest in others. In other words, Jesus says to them: what I have done for you, now go and do the same for someone else; what I have invested into your life, now invest in another believers life. Investing in others is one of the most noble and productive things we can do. Whatever we can do to help others make the world a better place by making the name of Jesus famous. As President Woodrow Wilson said, "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

So, how do you enrich the world and become someone who invests in others? Who are you investing in?