"We the church, are called to live a life that is victorious and never short of inspiring, but maybe we have lost our understanding of exactly how powerful the gospel is in a global context. Our thoughts typically have radiated towards the church organization and it's success. There's fruit of this within our big buildings, large gatherings and good coffee, but i think it's time to expand our thought. First, to have an enlarged perspective of who we are, we need an enlarged perspective of who God is. If we're not seeing success in a realm, we have to know it's only the absence of believing that God already has in His character everything we would ever need to be successful in that realm. Secondly, many people talk about having a “world view” and as that expands, you are able to see things more clearly. I would pose that as a body of believers, we've settled on having a “church view” alone rather than having a “kingdom view” (which includes all understanding of the church). The church is not a destination of upmost arrival but a launch pad into the kingdom. Jesus came preaching the coming of the kingdom of heaven here on earth, which should lead us to define what it looks like to live a life with no limits in the kingdom and how that impacts every sphere of influence."
