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Pastor Randall Roberts
Chapel Hills Definition of Vision
New Definition of “Vision” - Proverbs 29:18
and I am going to read them out of 4 different bible versions
Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint (NIV)
If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves (Message)
When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild (NLT)
Where there is no revelation the people cast off restraint; But happy is he who keeps the law.(NKJV)
God is slowly dismantling “stereotype” churches and establishing “prototype” churches
Prototype churches are churches that are following God into new territory. (New for the church, but certainly not new for God.) At SFM and Chapel Hill we will be going out into the highways and byways and bringing in the one's our so called do-gooder churches have rejected.
You may be sitting there shaking your head WHY WHY WHY and my answer to you is this, because JESUS DID IT THIS WAY.
Leaders in prototype churches know how to turn potential into “actual”
Most churches have a great deal of potential, but it is never accessed. The churches potential sits mired in religious obligation and traditions.
This is where that holy frustration I speak how this comes into play all the time nd how this comes into play. Leaders in the fledgling church that God is building today understand that this frustration is a critical part of growth. God initiated growth cannot happen in a church that is satisfied with its current state. We must be provoked to move forward, to seek the face of God for His plan for us. This is a redefining of vision.
How many of you want God to be on your side?
He has only one side – HIS SIDE!
This is why so many churches are dead or dying, because they want God to show up on their terms and if He does anything outside of the box they have built for them, they reject it as “not of God”. If we want to move forward, we must “partner” with God on His terms
Most Christians want all that God has for them, without cost.
We can’t “buy” anything God has for us, but there is always a cost
Salvation is free, but the results will cost you your life
Access to God’s power is free, but the cost is warfare & attack
Purity, maturity, authority are all free, the cost is responsibility
The Lord tells us that we must be good stewards of what He gives us.
If we pray, “Lord, take us into a new realm of anointing”, which, by the way is a great prayer, we are also asking for a new opponent.
Remember, new levels, new devils.
But, to be a strong church, we must battle strong devils.
Have you ever played those video games with your kids?
Our grandchildren kick my buttocks. I can’t get past the first level of opponents, while they are on level 15 or something…
As a church, and as individuals, if we want to experience the boundless life of God, we must continue to battle for new levels. Or we will stagnate and become another religious institution, just going through the motions.
Remember, when we face new levels off opposition, and you here know us and know we will it’s not OUR strength that gets us through. It’s allowing the strength of God to flow through us that defeats the enemy.
The first level is ALWAYS about the flesh and the first rule of spiritual warfare is that we cannot take ground from the devil in an area that he has ground in us.
Here’s the point: We must defeat the devil on the level we are on at the present time (the sin that easily defeats you). As we overcome this weakness and force the devil that empowers it to submit to our victory in Christ, that devil becomes our footstool to climb to the next level.
Are you at a place that you feel the Lord calling you to come deeper?
Are you willing to stop asking God to be on your side and step over to His?
Would you like to move from “frustration” to “provocation”?
Do you want to have your “potential” turned into “actual”?
Are you ready to overcome your current struggle & claim victory?
Then step on the devil and climb to the next level, the level and the vision that God has given this church.
This is what Proverbs 29:18 is all about. Seeing what God is doing and joining Him in the adventure. This is how we all move forward.
If any of you here think we entend for Chapel Hill Church to take a back seat to any of these mega churches here in Paris, perhaps your need to move a little closer so I can make our vision perfectly clear to ya'll .We will reach out to the one's the megas figure are not worth reaching out to. We will encourage those who have been beaten up by so many for who they are or where they have been. We pledge to you as a church and me as your Pastor to convert never ever condemn. Sure there are going to be plenty times we are going to get let down on our venture, but I will promise you this you can knock us down time and time again and just like the fights I have been in before I will always get up and tell them WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE because we have the Jesus the Christ as our leader and I know he is in my corner telling me to get up and as Proverbs 10:25 says
When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever.