Embracing Leadership and Faithfulness in Ministry
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "We are here today, and we get to celebrate four years of being in ministry, four years to celebrate the faithfulness of God, four years, yeah, man, four years just to celebrate His faithfulness. Hadassah said it already. You know, when we set out on this journey, my wife and I, we did not know COVID was coming. We set a date in 2019. We had no clue that COVID was coming when we set that date, but COVID came, and obviously that shook the whole world by surprise, and it caused a lot of people to have to really reevaluate different things and try to figure out ways that we can do things. And so we had to kind of figure that same thing out, but the reality was, the truth was, man, I don't know how to make it, right? But God has been just so faithful to us in that process. He has allowed us to do a lot of things over these last four years. He has, man, allowed us to have impact in people's lives that we never thought we would even be able to touch and be able to have relationships with." [44:06]
2. "Psalms 13, 6 says that I will sing the praises of the Lord for he has been good to me, right? And one of the things that we just talked about in the teaching cohort is that that tells us that if we acknowledge the goodness of God, it produces in us a praise, right? Even when we don't know what we can praise God for, we reflect on how good God has been. If we find that one thing that God has done in our life that has been good to us, it should produce within us a praise. And today, our praise can be for many things, but in addition to that, we are praising God because he has been good to us in this ministry." [44:59]
3. "Because everybody, we're in this age where everybody's starting stuff, everybody don't have a movement, everybody, it's the entrepreneurial age and Christianity has become the greatest thing that people have now attempted to monetize, right? Everybody wants to start a movement, everybody wants something that's going to be for kingdom advancement. And the question that I want to ask for you guys today is, but are you or can you be trusted with the cosign?" [51:32]
4. "Being in ministry should be being out in the world on assignment to advance the kingdom of God and or strengthen the body of Christ. Which means you can be released and co-signed in ministry and not serve in a program. Amen? But I know that that's been conflated. And even as a pastor, I don't like saying it. Because... Somebody going to take that and run with it the wrong way. And be like, I ain't got, you know, I say the need, but you know, ministry is... But though these perversions and stuff exist, what I want you guys to hear me talk about today, man, is just really looking at it through the lens of what the word of God says and seeing the truth of what scripture teaches. Because at the end of the day, when we wait for the co-sign, there is a blessing that is attached to it. When we do things the way that God has called us to do it, there is a blessing that is attached to it." [53:07]
5. "I know it's some weird. They're doing some weird stuff with that language now. But just to me, am I trustworthy? Right? I feel like God is. But am I, have I done the things that I need to do to receive the cosign? And here's the thing, by the way, that I want to say as I close. It's also, I was on a call with a person recently who has interest in the ministry. And one of the questions that this person said to me was, hey, who your pastor? Right? Which is a beautiful question. Why? Because every leader should be a Timothy. Right? Right? Who in the world? Cosigned you. Who in the world said your character is proven? Right? You should be looking at me and being like, who said you was good to go, tanks? Who do you submit to, tanks? Who developed you, tanks? Everybody should be a Timothy. Right? Because that is where the development takes place. That is the process in which we are developing." [01:38:07]
### Quotes for Members
1. "If you want to be trusted with the cosine, ask yourself, am I faithful to the gospel? Is my character proven? And am I submitted to the people I want me to give the cosine? Some of these are to be done perfect. But where there is lack, are we willing to do the developmental work in those areas? Right? Just because you conform a little don't mean that you can't learn to know what it means to stand firm. Right? Just because you got some character issues don't mean we can't work on that. Just because you ain't never seen healthy. Leadership to understand what healthy submission looks like don't mean you can't see the example and begin to do it now." [01:36:01]
2. "Sound leadership wants many sons and daughters. I'll give you a secret. I want a lot of Timothys and whatever the female version of Timothy is. Timothys. Timothy. Why? Because sound leaders understand that the weight of the kingdom cannot be carried on the back of one individual. So, hey, with everything we got to do, I need all of the sons and daughters that are true in faith that I can count. Trust words. I tell people all the time, I say, listen, it's a season coming. And all that I want. I want every, it's a whole bunch of people that I can be like, go, go, go, go, go, kill it." [01:37:34]
3. "And so the question is, can you be trusted to stick to the assignment and to do it honorably? I know where you are. I don't know where everybody is at, but, but, and I don't know what God has in the hearts of everyone, but I encourage you not to follow the trends of the culture and forsake leadership as you pursue. what God has placed on your heart. Invite leadership in if you have trusted leadership and allow them to be a part of launching you. Lay hands on blessing and to give you the cosign for the work that you're doing. And so that requires, one, that you need a local church and that you need local church with leadership that you can trust and that you're willing to submit to, right?" [01:40:29]
4. "And the funny thing that when we think about Reach City Church and its existence is I remember it was me and my wife, we had just got married. We had just joined the church because we had went and looking, seeking out a man of God that can shepherd me in the church. And I remember the pastor because we felt that that was where God was calling me or I felt it. And my wife was just like, yep, okay. And so I remember in 2013, I'm walking into my pastor office and I'm talking to him and I said, I'm here to learn how to be a shepherd from you. And in three years, my wife and I are going to start our own ministry. And he said, okay. 2016 comes around and I go to him and I say, man, you know what I'm saying, three years is coming. You know, we're about to go ahead and get ready to do this thing. And he was like, yeah, no. And I was like, no, he was like, yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't think, I don't think you're ready." [47:16]
5. "And the reality was, he was like, you, you're, you can't pastor people. He's like, you can preach well, you can teach well, but you have not learned what it means to nurture people into the faith. Right. I didn't know gentleness. I didn't know grace. I didn't know. I knew servanthood, but it had a caveat to it. Like, like I'm serving if you serve it. Right. And, and he was like, man, if you're going to shepherd people, there's some character things that are flawed in you that need to be developed. So. So that when God entrusts you with his people, you will know how to handle them and steward them well. And even with all of that, I still fumble the bag sometimes. Right. They are not the bag, but that's just the saying that we say it. Right. Probably shouldn't have said the bag. That's just a bad clip. They going to have me on K-Dub. Right. But at the end of the day, his, his, his, his cause to pause was a dilemma. It was a dilemma for my development, not a rejection of my assignment, not to try to stop what God was doing, but it was really to make sure that when it was time that I was set up for the most success possible because my character had been proven. My faith had been proven and I had did the work to learn some things in order to do this work." [49:20]
6. "And so, what I want to get into is last time we looked at Paul's thing and we stressed that, if you all remember, we stressed that no man can close or open the door that God has called you to. Remember that? And I'm still holding on to that. But I don't want us to misunderstand. I don't want us to misunderstand that while the most critical cosign that you need is the call of God on your life, it is also an undeniable biblical fact that God has a process for kingdom development, I mean kingdom deployment, that involves the cosign of your local church. While God is the most critical cosign that you need, it is an undeniable fact that God has a process for kingdom deployment that involves the cosign of your local church." [54:58]
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1. "We are here today, and we get to celebrate four years of being in ministry, four years to celebrate the faithfulness of God, four years, yeah, man, four years just to celebrate His faithfulness. Hadassah said it already. You know, when we set out on this journey, my wife and I, we did not know COVID was coming. We set a date in 2019. We had no clue that COVID was coming when we set that date, but COVID came, and obviously that shook the whole world by surprise, and it caused a lot of people to have to really reevaluate different things and try to figure out ways that we can do things. And so we had to kind of figure that same thing out, but the reality was, the truth was, man, I don't know how to make it, right? But God has been just so faithful to us in that process. He has allowed us to do a lot of things over these last four years. He has, man, allowed us to have impact in people's lives that we never thought we would even be able to touch and be able to have relationships with." [44:06]
2. "Psalms 13, 6 says that I will sing the praises of the Lord for he has been good to me, right? And one of the things that we just talked about in the teaching cohort is that that tells us that if we acknowledge the goodness of God, it produces in us a praise, right? Even when we don't know what we can praise God for, we reflect on how good God has been. If we find that one thing that God has done in our life that has been good to us, it should produce within us a praise. And today, our praise can be for many things, but in addition to that, we are praising God because he has been good to us in this ministry." [44:59]
3. "Because everybody, we're in this age where everybody's starting stuff, everybody don't have a movement, everybody, it's the entrepreneurial age and Christianity has become the greatest thing that people have now attempted to monetize, right? Everybody wants to start a movement, everybody wants something that's going to be for kingdom advancement. And the question that I want to ask for you guys today is, but are you or can you be trusted with the cosign?" [51:32]
4. "Being in ministry should be being out in the world on assignment to advance the kingdom of God and or strengthen the body of Christ. Which means you can be released and co-signed in ministry and not serve in a program. Amen? But I know that that's been conflated. And even as a pastor, I don't like saying it. Because... Somebody going to take that and run with it the wrong way. And be like, I ain't got, you know, I say the need, but you know, ministry is... But though these perversions and stuff exist, what I want you guys to hear me talk about today, man, is just really looking at it through the lens of what the word of God says and seeing the truth of what scripture teaches. Because at the end of the day, when we wait for the co-sign, there is a blessing that is attached to it. When we do things the way that God has called us to do it, there is a blessing that is attached to it." [53:07]
5. "I know it's some weird. They're doing some weird stuff with that language now. But just to me, am I trustworthy? Right? I feel like God is. But am I, have I done the things that I need to do to receive the cosign? And here's the thing, by the way, that I want to say as I close. It's also, I was on a call with a person recently who has interest in the ministry. And one of the questions that this person said to me was, hey, who your pastor? Right? Which is a beautiful question. Why? Because every leader should be a Timothy. Right? Right? Who in the world? Cosigned you. Who in the world said your character is proven? Right? You should be looking at me and being like, who said you was good to go, tanks? Who do you submit to, tanks? Who developed you, tanks? Everybody should be a Timothy. Right? Because that is where the development takes place. That is the process in which we are developing." [01:38:07]
### Quotes for Members
1. "If you want to be trusted with the cosine, ask yourself, am I faithful to the gospel? Is my character proven? And am I submitted to the people I want me to give the cosine? Some of these are to be done perfect. But where there is lack, are we willing to do the developmental work in those areas? Right? Just because you conform a little don't mean that you can't learn to know what it means to stand firm. Right? Just because you got some character issues don't mean we can't work on that. Just because you ain't never seen healthy. Leadership to understand what healthy submission looks like don't mean you can't see the example and begin to do it now." [01:36:01]
2. "Sound leadership wants many sons and daughters. I'll give you a secret. I want a lot of Timothys and whatever the female version of Timothy is. Timothys. Timothy. Why? Because sound leaders understand that the weight of the kingdom cannot be carried on the back of one individual. So, hey, with everything we got to do, I need all of the sons and daughters that are true in faith that I can count. Trust words. I tell people all the time, I say, listen, it's a season coming. And all that I want. I want every, it's a whole bunch of people that I can be like, go, go, go, go, go, kill it." [01:37:34]
3. "And so the question is, can you be trusted to stick to the assignment and to do it honorably? I know where you are. I don't know where everybody is at, but, but, and I don't know what God has in the hearts of everyone, but I encourage you not to follow the trends of the culture and forsake leadership as you pursue. what God has placed on your heart. Invite leadership in if you have trusted leadership and allow them to be a part of launching you. Lay hands on blessing and to give you the cosign for the work that you're doing. And so that requires, one, that you need a local church and that you need local church with leadership that you can trust and that you're willing to submit to, right?" [01:40:29]
4. "And the funny thing that when we think about Reach City Church and its existence is I remember it was me and my wife, we had just got married. We had just joined the church because we had went and looking, seeking out a man of God that can shepherd me in the church. And I remember the pastor because we felt that that was where God was calling me or I felt it. And my wife was just like, yep, okay. And so I remember in 2013, I'm walking into my pastor office and I'm talking to him and I said, I'm here to learn how to be a shepherd from you. And in three years, my wife and I are going to start our own ministry. And he said, okay. 2016 comes around and I go to him and I say, man, you know what I'm saying, three years is coming. You know, we're about to go ahead and get ready to do this thing. And he was like, yeah, no. And I was like, no, he was like, yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't think, I don't think you're ready." [47:16]
5. "And the reality was, he was like, you, you're, you can't pastor people. He's like, you can preach well, you can teach well, but you have not learned what it means to nurture people into the faith. Right. I didn't know gentleness. I didn't know grace. I didn't know. I knew servanthood, but it had a caveat to it. Like, like I'm serving if you serve it. Right. And, and he was like, man, if you're going to shepherd people, there's some character things that are flawed in you that need to be developed. So. So that when God entrusts you with his people, you will know how to handle them and steward them well. And even with all of that, I still fumble the bag sometimes. Right. They are not the bag, but that's just the saying that we say it. Right. Probably shouldn't have said the bag. That's just a bad clip. They going to have me on K-Dub. Right. But at the end of the day, his, his, his, his cause to pause was a dilemma. It was a dilemma for my development, not a rejection of my assignment, not to try to stop what God was doing, but it was really to make sure that when it was time that I was set up for the most success possible because my character had been proven. My faith had been proven and I had did the work to learn some things in order to do this work." [49:20]
6. "And so, what I want to get into is last time we looked at Paul's thing and we stressed that, if you all remember, we stressed that no man can close or open the door that God has called you to. Remember that? And I'm still holding on to that. But I don't want us to misunderstand. I don't want us to misunderstand that while the most critical cosign that you need is the call of God on your life, it is also an undeniable biblical fact that God has a process for kingdom development, I mean kingdom deployment, that involves the cosign of your local church. While God is the most critical cosign that you need, it is an undeniable fact that God has a process for kingdom deployment that involves the cosign of your local church." [54:58]
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