Vision Night: Change & Influence

The first Wednesday of each month the entire WAPT team comes together to talk about where we are going and what God is doing in our group. It's always AWESOME! If you're a member of the team we highly recommend that you make every effort to be there each month.

Wasn't it so great to have Pastor Dennis with us at Vision Night this week? What a blessing he is to the house.

It was encouraging to hear again about why we do what we do every week. It keeps things in perspective. We embrace change in our lives, not because we're so different from 68% of Americans who don't particularly care for it, but because we see the greater purpose. We welcome change because we welcome those who are seeking God and His life-changing love. After all, remember the all-encompassing and wonderful change that God has brought in your life...

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. - Rom. 12: 1-2 (msg)

When people start seeking God, they encounter us... we have influence... like it or not. Christians can either be a reason that people run to God and equally the reason that they run ... often times screaming...away. Do you take that into account when you speak, when you act, when you go about your everyday, ordinary life? You are an influencer and you play a key part of building a culture. A culture that welcomes, loves and is passionately sold out for God.

Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God's living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it. 2 Cor. 3:2

That's a pretty cool thought... no?

What do you think it means to be an influence? Does it mean just when you're on stage or does it apply on Saturday night too? What role does change play in becoming a great influence?

Join the discussion... we want to hear your thoughts