In this Q&A video, Pastor Bill discusses the topic of developing a community of people with a similar heart and mindset within whatever community you are in.

this this individual just mentioned they

have a deep covenant relationships with

a church that

kind of has a no risk culture uh

they don’t don’t dream and there’s a

great deal of love and affection for

these people

but i i want to know how to balance

remaining and feeling alive in church

and uh

i don’t know i’ll start maybe you can

just jump off of some of these things

like

i do think with the with ibetheltv and

various you know

so much you can get so fed so powerfully

and profoundly

in a variety of aspects through

conferences and through various things

that it’s um it is conceivable that

sometimes the lord has somebody on

assignment

in a church and there they come as a

minister of the gospel

not as a receiver of the ministry of the

gospel yeah i’m not sure the spiritual

leadership always loves that you know if

they don’t like risks and you’re out

there

you know you’ve got your own prayer line

going that sort of thing

but there’s uh they would make for some

interesting conversations but there is a

way that you can actually get really

well fed

and still be in these places that you

feel called to and that’s true

maybe on assignment and if they could

change a perspective about what they’re

doing

we’ve always wanted folks to not come to

church just to be ministered to i mean

for a long time it’s been you come as

the ministry team

you come to get ready to be the ministry

team out there and

uh no that’s that’s right

we we don’t lack for opportunities to

keep fed

to keep encouraged yeah obviously what

they’re looking for

is a community of people that were run

together after this and looking for a

tribe yeah

yeah they’re looking for you know what i

tell our students

is i say listen some of you are going

back to places where

where they don’t they may not be as open

to

a lifestyle that we would live or pursue

yeah uh

don’t look to change the leadership

don’t look to to check because they’ll

prepare

them yeah it’ll put you in a

manipulative place too which isn’t

healthy

but do look for people with the same

heart and if you can just find the one

or two or the

five or whatever that you can you can

spend you know you have dinner together

you spend time you share stories

together you

you just it’s just that natural process

of encouragement

it becomes a huge part of life where you

just you start developing friends

yeah based on you know what we both said

yes

at a level that not everybody agrees

with but we’ve both said yes to the lord

on this level

and we’ll keep each other encouraged and

in a school setting of course i

i tell them listen develop maintain your

friendships that you have in the school

even though they live in another country

or another state

yes you know keep making the phone calls

do whatever you just

need to do to stay encouraged but as far

as developing the community

you know where there’s a tribe of people

pursuing

you know that that just takes time it’s

easier as a leader

because what i’ll do is i stand up and

i’ll throw out a message and i’ll look

for the three or four people that have

the fire in their eyes

and there’ll be maybe 500 people that

are like this but there’s a few that are

i can tell are responding

that’s where i’m going to pour the bulk

of my time it’s different when you’re

a sheep in that environment because you

don’t want to cause a revolt

you don’t want to cause uh we’re better

that or more spiritual then

you know you got to stay away from that

but you have to be true to what god’s

given you

and and you just you work to develop

those kinds of relationships there’s

people there

absolutely yeah there’s people there or

there’s people that want to

they just need you know they need the

testimony

sometimes your lifestyle of risk will

provoke me

to risk and uh so it just can’t be hid

oh absolutely no yeah just can’t be

flaunted yeah it can’t be hit can’t be

flaunted there yeah

you know i think partly too there’s

there’s lots of good to celebrate

in these environments as well and it’s

that whole thing of look what what god

is doing

what’s happening not just what’s not

there and um

you know it we struggle to have a real

pastoral environment

you know it’s like you know it’s you

can’t really get

counseling here we’re not we’re trying

to put together you know folks that are

in our environment like

they love the move the holy spirit but

the pastoral of attention or affection

we’re

we’re kind of trying to get that going

again so

yeah i think it’s also not realizing

that there aren’t perfect environments

out there at least that i’m aware of

yeah you’re right you’re right and you

might be getting a level of pastoral

care and spiritual attention that you

you’re taking for granted

it’s not everywhere and um and

celebrating what’s going on you know we

have

and the what the the move of god and

communities in our in our

school when i teach the bible stuff we

use textbooks from

dallas theological seminary you know uh

they’ve got some

um great things going on and and some of

their work you know and for me it

doesn’t tell us

it doesn’t tell the whole story but it

tells a part of the story

really really effectively yeah you know

and so really appreciative of what’s

going on there

and i i read i read other authors who

aren’t running and you know

christian authors who are profoundly

helpful to me exactly but aren’t

necessarily moving in supernatural and a

lifestyle supernatural and i’m i’m able

to kind of go okay you don’t

you’re not so enthusiastic about

miracles you have you have a wisdom

though in your approach to stuff

that gives you an automatic discernment

for

this won’t shape my life yeah because

because we we

don’t agree there it is i’m not giving

up this principle yeah it’s a bump in

the road for you where others go

oh yeah yeah so there has to be some

wisdom about you know what they’re

what they’re uh feeding on but but that

appreciation that celebration of what is

present in the environment yeah

that’s why we that’s why we can truly

honor every group of believers

yeah i mean that’s why we can truly

honor celebrate we can actually yeah not

just lip service

yeah that’s right yeah not yeah not just

the out front

yeah we love everybody yeah and then

behind the scenes you know

no that’s why we can do it public or

private yeah

yeah i like that