Growing Families

When we use professional designs to grow tribes, we end up with orphanages: a couple of professional parents and a crowd of children who have no parents. When we instead allow the supernatural design built into humanity, boys and girls fall in love and become parents of boys and girls who fall in love and become parents of boys and girls who fall in love and become parents.

The relationships that you have with other believers in which you are honest, committed, discussing freely spiritual truths, generous, and in which you spend time simply in fellowship, these relationships are your connection to the body of Christ. The memberships that you have in congregations that are devoid of those dynamics are no more than your memberships in clubs that have good goals, like the Lions Club or Rotary. Develop the relationships that you have with friends who are spiritually minded, and you will grow in Christ and the effects of your work will increase.

“Rare is the organization that has not slipped from building people to ‘building the ministry.’” (Rick Joyner: “The Surpassing Greatness of His Power” ©1997, MorningStar Publications)