Yesterday on my drive home I was listening to a Q & A session from the Advance 09 conference that was recently held the first of this month in Durham, NC. The panel included the likes of John Piper, Mark Driscoll, Ed Stetzer and so on… Anywho, during the discussion the question came up of how, if at all, can pastors/ministers help foster a true revival or move of God in their church. In other words, is there anything the leadership can do that will cause a move of God to take place in their church. I really liked Driscoll’s response to the question. He said “you can set the sails but you can’t make the wind blow”. This in and of itself is a pretty common sense statement, but it sparked another thought in me. I thought about how many times we in leadership neglect setting the sails and “preparing the ship” for sailing because we’re too busy trying to make our own wind. Do you get what I’m saying? I don’t mean that we’re necessarily trying to play God or pull on people’s emotions, I’m just saying that we become completely in gulfed in God moving in a certain way because we’ve done these certain things. It’s obvious then how we can become so discouraged when things don’t progress as we think they should. Just a reminder to myself to always due dilegence and pray that God………….
