Outward-focused churches are dreaming churches. Not wandering daydreams or mere wishful thinking. Dreams that comes from the mind of God into the hearts of His people. Yet dreams themselves are not enough. Mark Batterson shares a formula that is helpful in explaining this.
Doing – Dreaming = Waste of Energy
Dreaming – Doing = Disobedience
Dreaming + Doing = Exponential Kingdom Impact
The key here is first to dream God-sized dreams. That means dreams that transform lives and worlds. It also means dreams that cannot possibly be realized by mere human planning and power. Dreams that drive us to an utter dependence upon God and result in people saying not, "What a great church," but saying "What a great God!"
The second is to understand that although God's resurrection power is the force by which we achieve those dreams, we cannot sit idly back and merely let it happen. God has given each church gifts and passions and abilities for the exact purpose of using those things to bring that dream to fulfillment. We must be preparing to dream and to do in order to have the Kingdom Impact God intends.
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