The Family

Last weekend, I had the honor to attend a conference by Leif Hetland. Normally, events like this are exciting and crazy, but this time was different. It was exciting, but hardly as crazy as a typical conference.

I got to see a glimpse of where the body of Christ is headed. It's exciting, but it is incredibly weighty. God is about to entrust His people with the things that are most precious to Him. We are really good at not stewarding things properly. God is about to prepare His people to have His heart. Getting from where we are to where He wants us is not going to be the least bit easy.

"Father, cut me open. Thy will be done." This must be the cry of our heart. Church growth, discipleship programs, and neat praise songs are not really that important to God. What He wants is total surrender. That's it. He wants all of us.

One of the greatest lessons to learn is that the Kingdom is a family. We are made in the image of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. "Let us make man in OUR image." There are no superstars in the Kingdom, only fathers and sons. We were made in the image of the Father and the Son and Holy Spirit. God Himself is a family unit.

I think from now on, I will refer to the "Church" as the Family.