How To Be a Barnabas
It takes extraordinary courage to obey God in these kinds of situations where the people opposing you appear to be the good guys.
The Wake-Up Call is a daily encouragement to shake off the slumber of our busy lives and turn our eyes toward Jesus. Each morning our community gathers around a Scripture, a reflection, a prayer, and a few short questions, inviting us to reorient our lives around the love of Jesus who transforms our hearts, homes, churches, and cities.
Personal awakening starts when we’re no longer content to rest in salvation from sin and death, but moving with desperation to be restored to the image of God.
Communal awakening moves from our hearts into a resurgence of life and faith in our homes and radical hospitality and love towards our neighbors.
An awakened church is no longer going through the motions, but is focused on spreading the love of Christ throughout its people and its local community.
In the city we see a decrease in social toxicity, the healing of the sick and hurting, and the flourishing of every sector of society – the contagion of scriptural holiness in the land.
It takes extraordinary courage to obey God in these kinds of situations where the people opposing you appear to be the good guys.
The true sign of prosperity is not success in all things, it is endurance despite all things.
When the church lives in awe of God, the kingdom breaks out into the world.