How can I do the G12 Vision?
People are stressed out from work, family, and finances.
They come to church looking for help and rest. When they come to a G12 church they are often greeted with, “Welcome! Go to the Encounter, Post Encounter, School of Leaders for 9 months, open a cell, and then you will be a leader of multitudes!!!” Nothing could be more disheartening than hearing this when you are already stretched beyond your emotional and time limits in your life. How can we help these people?
Jesus says something that offers hope to people who are stressed out! “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).
This sounds great! It sounds fantastic! But then He says, “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:29-30).
What? Take my YOKE? A yoke is used for work! If you are tired, Jesus is saying, “Come work for me!” This is a divine paradox.The problem with the first scenario is that people often try to place a yoke on a new person at church BEFORE they remove the yoke of the world.
Jesus isn’t adding a yoke to your life. He is REPLACING the yoke of the world with His yoke.
They come to church looking for help and rest. When they come to a G12 church they are often greeted with, “Welcome! Go to the Encounter, Post Encounter, School of Leaders for 9 months, open a cell, and then you will be a leader of multitudes!!!” Nothing could be more disheartening than hearing this when you are already stretched beyond your emotional and time limits in your life. How can we help these people?
Jesus says something that offers hope to people who are stressed out! “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).
This sounds great! It sounds fantastic! But then He says, “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:29-30).
What? Take my YOKE? A yoke is used for work! If you are tired, Jesus is saying, “Come work for me!” This is a divine paradox.The problem with the first scenario is that people often try to place a yoke on a new person at church BEFORE they remove the yoke of the world.
Jesus isn’t adding a yoke to your life. He is REPLACING the yoke of the world with His yoke.
We need to bring people to the Encounter before we start talking to them about opening a cell and doing ministry. They have to allow the Lord to remove the yoke of the world before they can be yoked with Christ in ministry. You cannot add the G12 Vision to your life. Ministry must become your life. We accomplish this by removing the yoke of the world and receiving the yoke of Christ. In this, we will find “rest for our souls.” Let’s help people to become free before we invite them to carry the burden of the ministry.
It is time for us to bring them to the presence of God where the yoke of the world can be removed.
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder…and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing”( Isaiah 10:27).
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