Join us for this two-day virtual event for church leaders, ministry teams, pastors and pastors’ wives. Activities include panel discussions, a session for pastors’ wives and in-depth teaching.
Keynote speakers include Dr. Tony Evans (Senior Pastor, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship), Dr. Darrell Bock (Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary), and Pastor James T. Meeks (Senior Pastor and Founder of Salem Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois).
we have wandered away
from a value system that was established
by god for how
human beings were to live and act and
relate to one another
it is now time on a personal level and a
systemic level
that we reverse the course of history
that has brought us to this point
do you ever feel helpless by the
political and social conflicts of the
day
are you tired of the band-aid solutions
given on the news
social media or by politicians people
have often looked to worldly solutions
for cultural crisis
but we know as believers that a
spiritual war can only be one with
spiritual weapons
god has given us the strategy for these
spiritual weapons and dr tony evans
three-point plan
for community transformation this
approach calls on pastors
and spiritual leaders to come together
across racial denominational
and class lines in order to promote a
culture of equity
unity justice and personal
responsibility
this is not a time for silence this is a
time for clarity
in love this powerful
and unique spiritual solution includes
three clear steps
assemble address and act
when we assemble across diverse groups
we strengthen relationships and better
understand each other’s needs
as we worship and plan together we seek
god’s guidance in reconciliation
next we address societal issues with the
unified and compassionate voice
through authentic conversation
relationship and mutual prayer
we broaden perspectives and increase
insights on how to work together for
cultural transformation
finally we must do more than talk by
faith
we must walk by faith we must act in
order to make a societal impact
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through well-planned and strategic
action we can bring about a collective
change in culture for good this is a
deciding moment
do we want to be one nation under god or
a divided nation
apart from him
it is absolutely needed right now that
there needs to be a reset
and this is the time to do it when it
has everyone’s attention
at the very same time it starts with an
individual it starts with you
find out more about how your church can
take part in this strategy
by downloading a kingdom strategy for
community transformation
at tonyevins.org
the world says to man up but they’re
often talking about things you can see
money status what does god say
to be a man and rise up in society you
can’t leave god on the sidelines
to do so is the difference between good
and great
see greatness isn’t achieved it’s
demonstrated
every day a man leaves his legacy to a
million middle moments
done well it requires showing up being
present
standing up speaking truth in his
powerful and long-awaited sequel to the
instant bestseller kingdom man
tony evans kingdom men rising challenges
men to rise up for what they believe in
he inspires men to leave a legacy of
both impact
and influence get the much anticipated
sequel
kingdom men rising and get going seize
what’s yours
claim what’s ours for the collective
body of christ
time is ticking kingdom men we must rise
find out more at tonyevins.org
when we understand the seasons of our
lives we are able to face the challenges
and appreciate the blessings
each day brings one thing is certain
the lord has promised that he has a
divine purpose and that he will be with
us
through each and every season
hi there my name is crystal hurst and
i’m priscilla shire
we are so excited that you are joining
us for the seasons of a woman’s life
bible study
and we got to tell you we’re excited
because this is the legacy of our very
own dear mother
she gave us so many time and tested true
principles from god’s word to help us
have the abundant life that god has
called us to particularly
god’s daughters that’s you that’s us
so we’re excited to be able to take you
through this in a brand new format
and we know that she would be excited
that you’re joining us too
thanks for joining us we’ll see you in
session one
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well hello everybody this is dr tony
evans with the urban alternative
and i am so very very very did you hear
me say very excited
to welcome you to our first
virtual kingdom leaders summit 2021
we’ve combined our historical pastors
gathering with our leadership training
so that we can get all of our leaders
together to equip
inspire challenge and see god
transform us to make us useful during a
desperate time
that we have been called to minister so
i’m excited to be joined
by our special friend daryl bach of
dallas seminary
and james meek of salem church in
chicago
they’re going to be here for our general
sessions and then we’re going to have
some powerful workshops
to equip you in your area of interest
and needs
and then we’re going to have great times
of celebration and worship
my kids are here to support me and to be
used of god during our time together
there has never been a time
when the cry for spiritually based
leadership has been needed
more than it’s needed right now and that
means you
so sit back relax prepare your heart
your mind your spirit and your soul for
god
to use our time together to impact
you and then through you to impact those
you serve
well let’s get ready to enjoy the
presence of god through worship
my namesake anthony evans jr is going to
lead us into god’s presence
in praise
all right we want you to worship with us
we are so glad to be here
at this conference at the kingdom
leaders summit 2021
now worship with us come on i count on
one thing
the same god that never fails he won’t
fail me now
he won’t fail me now in the waiting
the same god who’s never late is working
all
things out he’s working off things out
yes i will lift you high
in the lowest valley yes i
will bless your name
yes i will sing for joy
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the same god who’s never late is working
all things out
he’s working all things out
oh yes i will lift you
high in my lowest valley yes i
will bless your name
yes i will sing for joy
when my heart is heavy on my
day yes i will
yes i will i’ll leave you high
in my lowest valley yes i
will bless your name oh i will bless
your name
i will sing for joy when my heart is
happy on my
day yes i will
all my days yes
i will i
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to just glorify the name of the
names that nothing can stand against
i choose to praise
to glorify glorify the name of all names
that nothing can stand against i choose
to
pray to glorify
glorify the name of our
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that next can stand against i choose
to praise to glorify glorify
the name of all names
nothing can stand against come on say
yes
i will lift you high in my lowest valley
yes i will bless your name
oh i will bless your name though
sing for joy when my heart is heavy
all my days yes
i will all my days
yes i will
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yes i will
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we make a decision every day
corporately i do and we have to
especially as leaders to make a decision
every day
in spite of our circumstance to worship
and that’s what we are doing
right in this very moment you know i
love
that on the days when it’s hard to make
those decisions i can cling to the fact
that god’s promises ring true
and one one of his promises that i
always need to hear is that there is
therefore now no condemnation
for those who are in christ jesus so as
we sing that promise over you
and corporately as we worship together
i want you to keep in mind that the
weight of
of life the weight of circumstance and
all the things that we face
internally when when dealing with
external circumstances and
our flesh that he does not condemn you
and
his desire is for us in this moment
to be close to him so let’s remember
this promise together
there is no condemnation
for those in christ jesus by
his blood i
have been made free
there is no condemnation
for those in christ jesus
by his blood i have been
redeemed y’all sing that with me come on
sir
there is no condemnation
for those in christ jesus
by his blood i
have been made free
there is no condemnation
in christ jesus by his blood
i have been redeemed
because it is forgiveness i don’t have
to live with
shame anymore
because it is redemption no more
condemnation there’s no more
because of this forgiveness i don’t have
to live with
shame anymore because
it is redemption no more condemnation
there’s
no more one more time
because of this forgiveness i don’t have
to live with shame anymore
because of his redemption no more
condemnation there’s no more
there’s no more
there’s no more guilt there’s no more
shame
oh there’s no
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there’s no depth there’s no height
that can separate me
christ to die race alive
made a way for me
yes he did there’s no death
there’s no height that can separate me
from christ who died
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that can separate me
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there’s no height that can separate me
one more time if you believe it come on
slay crying to
die raise the lime made away
for he made
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nothing can separate us from
his love
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nothing can separate us from his
love no death no height
can separate us from his love
we give you praise jesus we give you one
lord
we thank you god nothing can separate
us nothing can separate us from his love
there is no condemnation
for those in christ jesus
by his blood i
have been made free
come on one last time there’s no there
is no
condemnation for those
in christ jesus
by his blood i have been redeemed
oh we have been redeemed
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anthony thank you so much for that
amazing worship experience
it is a reminder to us romans 8 tells us
therefore there is no condemnation to
those who are in christ
jesus my name is charles wilford and i
serve as the senior pastor of cross
point bible fellowship church
i’ve had the great pleasure of being a
part of dr tony evans ministry
k.a.p the kingdom agenda pastors for
well over 10 years
where we help build pastors we’re
excited that you will have an
opportunity to be a part
of four sessions four sessions that will
also have a segment
entitled kingdom builders where you will
be blessed by
kingdom building pastors this first
session will be led by jonathan evans
where he will have an opportunity
to interview the senior pastor of one
community church
conway edwards join us for this time
together
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what’s going on everybody and i want to
welcome you to session one thank you
pastor wilford
i want to welcome you to session one of
kingdom
builders okay we’re talking to a special
friend today a special friend of our
ministry a son of my dad’s ministry who
started as the singles pastor at oakley
bible fellowship and i’m telling you he
had the singles ministry
rocking and rolling so much so that my
dad was like hey man it’s time for you
to start a church it’s been great ever
since then and so i want to welcome
today conway edwards how you doing
conway
doing fantastic man thank you so much
for having me
what an honor what a privilege and it’s
just fun to watch
your dad and you do minister together it
just excites me all over again
well it’s it’s good to be able to do it
and good to be able to just hang out
with you for a little bit i just wanted
to take a few minutes
and have you share your story you know
everybody just kind of wants to hear i
talked about how you started ocbf i mean
i’m sure you had some things going on
before that
but just talking about how you started
with you and uh
jada and kind of where you are now tell
us about your ministry
yeah uh so we started about 13 years ago
tony uh dr evans graciously
i was heading back to jamaica and he
graciously convinced me that i should
stay here
and um really long story short in order
to honor
what pastor was doing there i didn’t
think he could go anywhere near here
because that would be
you know what i call stealing sleep so i
said we gotta go far
far away so that somebody have to drive
and then i promise them this is
important
i promised them that um we’re not taking
anybody
but eight people showed him the eight
people and said these okay
we’re not doing anything unless you uh
sign off on it because i want to honor
you because you’ve been such a dad to me
and so it’s been a beautiful transition
we did that 13 years ago
and uh honestly jay we thought if we had
a hundred people that would be an
incredible opportunity to just love 100
people
and um i would never guess jada would
have never guessed none of our
leadership team would have ever guessed
what god would have done since then and
so basically man
uh today 13 years later after starting
after um heading out to north side
of town uh god’s just graciously blessed
us now and we have
a number of campuses and we can’t keep
up and i am honored
and humbled and terrified all at the
same time
yeah you talk about honored humbled and
terrified of me that’s what it is when
god calls you up and and things start
happening and you’re like man god hold
on a second
and it makes you totally depend on him
and so he keeps you in that dependent
uh place which is terrifying all the
time okay
but i get that and as you talk about
that talk to the people about that are
watching this about your greatest
challenge
in all of this i mean as god continues
to move and as god continues to do his
work through
you and jada’s ministry what what are
the challenges that you face and have
you dealt with those
yeah yeah let me give you perhaps three
of the big challenges that we’ll face
number one is um
what i call the people problem knowing
the right people having the right people
in the right position
and being secure enough to allow them to
fully soar even though they might do
a hundred things better than you can and
so just knowing your capacity
knowing that if you don’t if you don’t
create room for others
then they’re gonna hit a lid and then
knowing
how to discern who are the right leaders
with the right capacity
that has the right trajectory to take
the ministry
further than where you could take it by
yourself
so identifying critical key leaders and
then giving them room
to simply do the best they can for the
glory of god
has been the greatest challenge but jay
when you fix that
and you have the right leader soaring
for the glory of god
there is nothing else like it and
actually
the higher up you go the easier your job
is
if you have the right people that you’re
cascading minister too
so one of the challenges i’ve always
shared with younger leaders is
making sure you have the right leaders
around you
and that’s hard a lot of times
especially for african americans
because if you don’t if you can’t trust
people and if you get real
insecure real quickly and if you’re
afraid of them
their gifts shining more than yours then
you’re going to hold that to ministry
because you’re going to think
that they will some in some sort of way
short circuit
what god might be doing they might
micromanaging
that’s exactly right come on man you
know that is you know that yeah yeah
yeah
and just i’m just a new model of
minister where you’re giving the
minister away
where you have number of people teaching
not just you alone
and where you’re giving them their areas
of ministry like you know we have
four campuses and when you give a campus
away you’re not there so you have no
idea
what they’re doing but you trust them
and you’ve got a weekly meeting that you
meet with them
but but that trust has to be there and
they have to have the gifts and
abilities
to produce what they said they’re gonna
go they were going to go and produce
so that’s exhilarating and scary right
at the same time
yeah i can imagine especially with that
leadership now how do you run your
your campuses i mean do you do you type
in or do you allow those pastors to to
be the teachers at those campuses how do
you run those
yeah yeah so so for us right now the
model we’re choosing right now is
it’s all video driven so we’ve got four
teaching pastors
and of the four anybody anybody can
teach at any sunday
and it’s all driven in but all those
campus pastors
have to be able to teach if something
goes wrong with the video we have some
redundancies there
but they all have to be able to teach
and they all have to be able to have a
sermon
because if anything go wrong if they’re
up and they’ve got to finish the sermon
or they have to teach one that they
believe is best so
we use them in our morning devotionals
what morning devotional since we’ve gone
fiddle
and each of them teach on a sunday on a
morning from
6 45 to 7 15 and then for men’s bible
study most of the guys teach as well and
then on the female side
we have female teachers teaching as well
well that’s great man you’re doing
you’re doing a great job and that
that’s an encouragement to me um you
know because my dad comes from a dif
a different way of doing things you know
my dad’s teaching
every sunday you know what i mean you
know he just he just has that way of
going about it i’m like man
you preaching 42 out of 52 sundays and
wednesdays
man you’re doing two different series
you’re doing one series on sunday
another totally different series on
wednesday then you’re writing a study
bible
and another bible you got 100 books over
here
and and people are looking at me like
hey you’re next i’m like no i’m not
i’m not doing that i don’t know who does
that you know what i mean right
so just seeing how you’ve handled it and
um how you’ve uh
just empowered leaders uh in a different
way not not better or worse but in a
different way
in the way that god has called you has
been great what would you say your
greatest triumph is if you
as you look back and you look at um the
things that god has done to take you
from one level to the next level for his
glory
where would you say you’ve seen him the
most in your mind uh
it really is in the development of all
the leaders so one of the things what i
love the most
is to develop leaders both in the
marketplace and
in the church and when i hear some of my
senior executive senior vps ceos
take the stuff that we teach and
leadership and take it to the to their
to their corporate environments
and when they can use it in that city
and their peers are asking we learn this
stuff from you learn this from harvard
you learn this from
mit and it’s a no we learn it in the
church house that and then they say
whichever church that is i gotta go see
what the heck’s going on there yeah
that’s the greatest um
for real no joke at all that’s my
greatest testimony and then number two
when you see younger guys come up in our
church and you see them develop their
gifts and abilities
and they get to thrive in ministry and
they get to
to develop their wings and soar dude i’m
just telling you
there is nothing like it and i have been
blessed with
your dad my my spiritual dad and for
other guys that that just built into me
and then allowed me to soar and to see
that happen
at multiple levels and then to see it
happen with the network of pastors
of about 50 network of pastors that we
that we either father or develop
to see them sore as well dude i’m just
telling you there is
there is no greater joy for me than to
see leaders
lead at their highest capacity and do it
in a healthy way
man that’s great that’s great because
ultimately that’s what we’re called to
do
and especially doing at the leadership
level go make disciples and make
disciples making good leaders who can go
out and do the same thing over and over
again
that’s where the impact is and so and
everybody who’s listening to this now
needs to remember that
by way of passion by way of purpose by
way of god’s provision by way of his
word
uh that we’re going to make disciples
and and building strong leaders not
trying to hold it to yourself
that’s it what i mean but but letting it
go you know god had an open hand and
that’s why we’re able to even receive
salvation
to go do what we’re called to do and so
letting it go i think that i think
that’s a
that’s a great word okay let’s let’s end
with this let’s end with this yes okay
all of the things that god has done what
is the future in conway’s mind like
cast a little vision what does conway
want to do
where’s the desire to go forward
all right so they’re they’re that’s a
multi-layered question so if you’re
talking about your church that’s one if
you’re talking about
uh uh the big c church so let me talk
about both of them real quick
to talk about the big c church my desire
really
is to see church leaders get better
at leading the people and especially in
the african-american community
i it is just my dream my prayer the
thing that i go to my closet over
is to see african-american leaders
lead their churches in healthier ways
and to see
african-american leaders lead larger
churches
but jay if they’re going to lead a lot
of churches then they’re going to have
to have good relationships
with other pastors because you can’t do
it by yourself that’s right so it is
helping
pastors realize how much they need other
people here we go now
and helping them see that what grows a
church is not preaching
what grows a church is leadership and if
you’re going to grow
your church you’ve got to be good at
character
you know all the five c’s chemistry
cadence
you’ve got to be good at making sure you
have good chemistry with everybody else
and so on and so forth right
and then on the orchard side what the or
desire is
um when we first started we just thought
god called us to
the north side of texas and just to just
dominate and saturate in the north side
with the gospel of jesus christ
now um because of covid a whole or
entire strategy has changed
and so now we’re trying to figure out
what does it look like to be a global
church
not just a national church but a global
church and how do you strategically
reach some of the larger populations for
example how do you reach
india that’s english the largest
english-speaking country in the world
how do you reach indians with the gospel
of jesus christ then
how do you reach africa with the gospel
of jesus christ
and all we’re trying to figure out now
is how do we do that
in such a way that we create this thing
called occ
global and what does that look like not
just to reach
um jerusalem and samara but literally
the uttermost part of the world
and that my friend is a daunting task
and a scary task
but that’s why you love leadership right
you love the challenges ahead of you
and asking god to give you the right
people to come alongside you to pull
this off for his glory
so on one side it’s occ global on the
other side
is how do we coach enough predominantly
african-american leaders
to transition their church into diverse
churches and
coach them into building larger
ministries and you can only do that
if you’ve got great people around you
man that is awesome
that is awesome and i know with the
vision that you have it may be
uh terrifying but we know who god is and
you know we believe that he can do it uh
through you and he’s already shown
himself you know we get fearful of stuff
that he’s already done
so we just have to keep putting one foot
in front of the other and uh so i hope
that was an encouragement to everybody
watching here uh
conway’s ministry we love you brother we
thank you for just sharing with us
and uh we’re gonna keep going next we
have christopher and so we’re gonna keep
going
and so we bless you and bless your
family we’re praying for you
and your church and we’re going to go
from here thank you guys for joining us
thank you
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so excited to be with you here at the
kingdom leaders summit and it’s
exciting to be a part of this event it
was exciting to be a part of the last
session conway edwards is a great friend
of our families he’s been a great friend
of our ministry over the long haul
we’re friends with his wife jada too and
so it was really great to hear him share
this is an opportunity for all of us to
grow as kingdom
leaders because at the end of the day
it’s all about the kingdom of god and
it’s all about leading other people
towards
jesus towards the word towards how god
wants to develop us and disciple us in
our lives
that’s why we’re so grateful for the
tony evans training center where
apart from events like this people can
in the in the comfort of their own homes
go to class
take notes learn and grow and another
opportunity for us to do that
uh is to allow you to grow because it’s
about the legacy of building god’s
kingdom it’s about the legacy
that we have as disciples of jesus as we
disciple other people
to spread the word of the gospel far and
wide and one of the resources that we
want to share with you
is this resource you may have heard of
it it is this big old thick book called
theology you can count on and my dad is
known for and has been known for some
time of taking very difficult spiritual
concepts
and making them easy to understand and
if you as you seek to build
your legacy in in the lord as a leader
if you need a resource
this is a great one to grab it’s 50
percent off right now and you can take a
snapshot of the qr code that’s on the
screen
or go to the link below so that you can
put this resource in your library as you
build legacy
for the lord jesus christ in your
ministry we are excited about the
opportunity to grow with our minds
that’s what
studying the word of god to show
yourself approved is all about
but it’s not just about a mental
understanding a mental belief
a mental journey it is a heart journey
it’s a relational journey
and one of the biggest ways that we can
engage in relationship with god
is through prayer and this would not be
an event about leadership this would not
be an event about legacy
if we didn’t actually make time to
connect with god in prayer so
excited about this next part of our
session it’s the prayer experience
let’s pray together morning everyone my
sister crystal was right when she talked
about
the importance of prayer and how
important it is and we need it right now
i don’t know if you know it or not and
i’m sure you do
that we need prayer we need prayer in
our ministries we need prayer for our
family
we need prayer and the things that are
going on with the chaos and the multiple
pandemics
that we’re experiencing i know in our
family we needed a lot of prayer and
still do
with all of the trials and tribulations
that have been coming our way
and so that’s what we want to do right
now we want to take the opportunity
to just be still and pray take the
opportunity
to just talk to the lord and give him
time to talk back to us
and we don’t want to just say that we
believe prayer works without
working in prayer we want to give god
everything we have during this time
before we move on to say lord we want to
hear from you
because we actually need you and i just
want to go over three categories of
prayer
starting first with our ministries we
know right now we’re in a difficult
season right now we’re in a season where
things are changing uh finances have
changed
our membership has been scattered
locally with the pandemic
that we’ve been experiencing there’s all
of these different things that
ministries
are experiencing and and trials that
they’re going through
but the church needs to hold strong
jesus said in matthew 16
he said i will build my church and the
gates of hell will not prevail against
it
that means the opponent of hell is the
church and we want the church to be
strong we want your church to be strong
and so we want to pray about that right
now so i want to give
you a moment and i’ll close i want to
give you a moment
to just say a prayer for your ministry
and
the ministry the global church of jesus
christ right now
that god will continue to gird it up
strong and god’s people will understand
the importance
of assembling together and going ye
therefore and making disciples
with the calling that we have let’s take
a moment right now just with you by
yourself or with your family or with
uh your church leaders or your staff
let’s take a moment right now
to seek the lord in prayer for our
church ministries
heavenly father we love you and we thank
you we give you the glory
lord we know lord that you’re going to
walk through the church
so we pray now with all of the hardships
lord that we would
heavenly father lord i just lift up
right now our church
all the church ministries out there all
of the pastors all of the
the deacons all of the the congregants
lord all of the people who are part of
the local bodies all over
not even just this country but all over
the world we know that you said you will
work
through the church house before you ever
fix the white house we know that things
are going to change
because you have decided to use the
church as your conduit
to make that change so we pray lord that
you would intervene
help us to be flexible help us to see
help us to grow help us to learn
so that we can achieve everything that
you have for the body of christ it is
not about
our local ministry it is about our local
ministry advancing your kingdom
help us to never lose sight of that help
us to not be
uh concerned about being the salt in the
shaker but the salt that leaves the
shaker so we can actually preserve the
meat of the culture lord
and maybe you’ve allowed all of these
things to happen in our churches so that
the salt would leave the shaker so that
we would be
pushed out of our comfort zone so that
we can move
forward lord on your team and not in
opposition
even if it’s opposition subconsciously
we want to be the church that you’ve
called us to be and right now
you’ve called us to be decentralized to
take your centralized truth
your word but do it in a decentralized
way go ye therefore make disciples lord
was something you have called us to do
and in order to do it we have to go and
be aggressive about it bless our
ministries
not so that we can be blessed only but
so that we can use that blessing
to go be a blessing for you we love you
and we honor you today
in jesus name amen
listen our churches god is looking at
our churches
and we’re looking at him and he’s
looking at us and he’s saying i’m going
to work through the church to do what
i’m going to do
in the culture and so a lot of times we
think we’re waiting on god and god is
saying uh
i’m waiting on you i need you to see
that i’m doing a new thing
he says in the book of isaiah can you
tell when i’m doing a new thing
and we have to be flexible for what god
is doing but i also
want to take some time in our our prayer
moment today
just to seek the lord for our marriages
to seek the lord for our families listen
god
established marriage and family
way back when in genesis chapter 2 when
he said the man and the woman shall
become
one flesh and what the lord has brought
together let no man
separate we have an attack on our
families we have a 50
divorce rate not just in the culture but
also
in the church where our families are
being split
children are being wounded and not being
able to make a comeback from that
setback and my dad always told me
the saga of a nation is only the saga of
its families written large
and so we have to really take time to
seek the lord
for our families if you’re struggling in
your family or you have wayward children
or you’re struggling
in your marriage that’s what this time
is for so we want you to pray i’m going
to pray for you
but i want you to take the time to pray
for yourself your family
your children and maybe some others in
the sphere of your influence who you
know
may be struggling a little bit let us
let’s seek the lord
for our families because that is a
covenant that god
multiplies himself through
and he multiplies his image through our
family so let’s pray
i want to give you a moment let’s pray
for our families and the strength of
those families
right now
heavenly father lord continuing in
prayer lord we pray for the marriages
and the families
help us to not lose sight through the
trials and struggles that we have in our
family i know we’ve had
a lot of trials and struggles in our
family but we’ve decided to hold strong
and continue to press forward to take
hold of the upward call
of god in christ jesus help these
families to think
bigger than the issues no matter how big
they are
help the wayward children that have gone
left to turn right and go from the world
back to the word help all of us in our
marriages to recognize what the word
tells us to do
not simply what our history and our
experiences tell us to do
and especially what the culture tells us
to do help us to not feel
comfortable in things that your word is
not comfortable with
help us lord to submit ourselves to you
help husbands to love their wives
like christ loved the church help wives
to respect their husbands
in everything not because we feel it but
because we faith it
and help us to also recognize what the
enemy is trying to do
against our families help us to see it
because our fight is not against flesh
and blood
we love you lord we pray that you take
care of our families that you
that you heal broken hearts that you
provide
the discipline for us to recognize your
word as it relates to
forgiveness lord so that we can move
forward and be that conduit that you
want to
work through we love you and we honor
you today bless
us again so that we can bless you
in jesus name amen i want to
close our prayer time just have an
opportunity to pray
for our leaders to have an opportunity
to pray for you guys
to pray for all of the leaders out there
who are leading the way in this
tumultuous season where it’s been
been difficult and hard for god’s people
during this time
to lead to be innovators in this new
time to push forward in the new things
that god is calling us to do and we know
leadership is hard we know leadership is
a strain we know leadership takes a lot
of time
we know leadership is hard to balance
and so we want to take that time to pray
for you
but we also want you to think about
praying for another leader
praying for another leader we are not in
competition we’re all on the same team
and so i want you to take time to pray
for your leadership
and the leadership of your team but also
want you to take a moment
to choose another leader that you can
pray for maybe unity
working together so we want to take time
to pray for our leadership and we want
to do that
right now let’s pray together
heavenly father lord we come to you
again just thanking you for the
opportunity that we have to come to you
that we have reconciliation that has
been given to us through the work
the death and sacrifice of christ jesus
your word says in mark 11 lord that if
we pray believing
that we will receive and we recognize
what matthew 21 31 says lord that this
is the house of prayer and we are
praying fervently for our leaders
for all of the leaders that you’ve put
in place to
to to to shepherd your flock and to
carry out your plan and to give
vision we pray that they would run and
not grow weary
we know this is a time of hurt harm and
sacrifice that has been coming to
leadership
it’s been coming to the church the enemy
has been attacking
but lord we pray that we do not grow
weary of doing good
and the reason why you have that verse
in galatians is because it’s easy
to grow weary in these times from doing
good but we pray lord that you will
gird us up that we will mount up with
wings like eagles that we will run and
not grow weary
and we’ll be able to recognize and see
the new vision and the new things and
the new ways
that you want to accomplish through your
people and especially
your leaders thank you for giving us
this time help us to look for you
to see you as we continue to search for
you
with all of our hearts we give you the
glory
in jesus name amen thank you for taking
the opportunity to spend some time
in prayer with the lord and i want you
to be have confidence
because we prayed according to his will
so keep your eyes open because he’s
going to show you
a new thing and now i’m excited because
my dad is going to keep us going from
here
is he’s going to open us up with a great
message so get attentive
get your ears perked up because it’s
time to go into god’s work
well i want to thank my youngest child
jonathan evans
for leading us through that prayer
experience
well i’ve got some nah bad news
the church of jesus christ is now the
visiting team
when a football team goes and plays
against another team
on their home field they go at a deficit
because
the crowd is not on their side when
they’re playing at home
that means the crowd is with them when
they’re praying away
that means the crowd and the other team
is against them
there was a time in our culture when the
church of jesus christ had
home field advantage where the culture
supported a judeo-christian
ethic and world view there was a time
when
the schools and the politicians
and even though it wasn’t perfect the
christian worldview was at least
respected churches were valued
and not marginalized this is not the
case today
we’re in a post-modern era
where god jesus christ and the bible sit
on the sidelines
and so does his church because we’re
being booed by the culture
no longer is it accepted that
the bible should be consulted as a
standard
by which decisions are to be made on the
definition
of life and family and even how a nation
is to function we are the visiting team
now a visiting team is still expected to
win they don’t
they don’t succumb to the reality
of being in enemy territory
but when the team decides it’s going to
acquiesce
to the environment that it is in it can
expect to lose
we’re living in a time when the church
of jesus christ
is losing and we’re losing on all fronts
i
was sent a few days ago
something where a congressperson
from from florida congressman from new
york
quoted me on the issue of morality and
on the issue of
the definition of humanity is male and
female and they quoted me
and said that in their presentation in
that congressional meeting
when he finished the head of the meeting
in congress stood up and said
there is no place for god’s will
in this chamber that that hit
me as another illustration of the
marginalization of god
and god’s way and god’s will
in our secular society
now the problem with all of this
is that the church of jesus christ has
been a co-conspirator
in the demise of the culture we have
made it
easy for the society to reject
our worldview to reject the bible the
god and the church
institution because we have failed to be
what god has called us to be which has
opened up
the opportunity for the systems of this
world order
to become the home field advantage for
them
and make us the visiting team
that drew my attention to
ezekiel 37. now if you’re familiar with
your bibles at all you know about
ezekiel 37 the valley of dry
bones israel
was the visiting team in babylon
because of their failure to give god the
worship that he deserved
because of their compromise with
idolatry
god allowed the babylonians to become
the home team and they found themselves
incarcerated in a culture
that rejected them and that rejected
their god we find in ezekiel 37
that the spirit of the lord leads the
prophet
to a valley now valley is a low place
it’s between two hills or two mountains
and it’s very low
and it was full of bones it was
jam-packed
we’re told that these bones in verse two
were very dry
what do we mean by drive verse 11 tells
us it says
our bones are dried up and our hope has
perished
and we are completely cut off you know
what dry bones means
a hopeless situation and the more i go
around the more i listen to ministers
and ministries
i hear hopelessness what are we going to
do
with the world going left like it is
infiltrating all of our institutions
what are we going to do because we are
disconnected ourselves
and how can a disconnected church
make a difference in a disconnected
culture
he says we are in a desperate situation
and if you haven’t looked closely these
days it ought to be
inextricably clear these are desperate
times requiring
desperate measures we’re in a time when
people have stopped going to church
people have stopped respecting the
church
people have marginalized the church
and they want god for invocations and
benedictions
as long as he stays out of the meat in
the middle
they don’t want his decisions they just
want to
pay respectful homage to him and even
that
has gotten on shaky grounds
the valley of dry bones was referring to
god’s people
in a secular society the new testament
equal to that is the church
just as israel was god’s kingdom people
in the old covenant the old testament
the church of jesus christ represents
god’s presence
in the new testament just as
israel was expected to be a light to the
nations
god expects believers the church to be a
light to a broken world so if the light
is not on then the world is going to
live in darkness
so we can’t complain about how dark the
world is when there’s no
light in the sanctuary when the church
of jesus christ
is full of dry bones he speaks to this
issue
through the prophet through
the prophet who raises
a statement that ought to blow your mind
god says to him in verse three son of
man
can these bones live
is it too late are we too disconnected
too
broken for too long is it possible that
this
desperate situation in the church which
has facilitated a pagan culture
can these bones live again
and the prophet gives an answer he says
oh lord god you know
translation i don’t have a slightest
idea this stuff looks so bad
for so long that i don’t think
it’s reversible unless you do something
supernatural
unless you come down in this hot mess
we’re in
and turn this thing around i don’t see
it only you can answer that question
because when i look out the prophet says
only you know
cause i don’t know i don’t see an answer
to this mess apart from a miracle
and so that’s the situation he was in
that’s the situation we are in
you’ve heard me say it before let me say
it again god
will not skip the church house to fix
the white house
ephesians 3 10 says that god checks with
the church
before he deals with the principalities
and powers ephesians chapter 1 verses 22
and 23
all things have been handed over to
christ but christ has only been handed
over to the church
and the church is to infiltrate all
things on behalf of christ
so the failure in our schools the
failure in our government the failure in
our families affair in our communities
can be tied to the faith of the church
the failing race relations the failure
in class relations
the failure and cultural relations the
failure in political relations
can be tied to the church we’ve been
more racial than biblical we’ve been
more cultural than biblical
we’ve been more secular than biblical
while calling on the name of jesus
and until we understand that we are the
valley of dry bones
don’t expect babylon to get much better
only the church the church is the final
firewall for the preservation
of any semblance of an orderly society
and if that firewall breaks down
there is no hope left if the dry bones
stay dry
then all hope is gone
now i haven’t given you some bad news
and i know you see it in the news you
see it in your communities
you see it because the churches are
being attacked
even by its own members who don’t want
to hear from god and sometimes
even that is promoted by the leaders
he’s given instruction in a desperate
situation
again he said to me prophesy
over these bones and say to them
oh dry bones hear the word
of the lord he says i want you to talk
to
the bones yep the dry ones the ones in
the low place and didn’t have any hope
and he couldn’t see any any turnaround
he says i want you to prophesy
now for all you preachers and teachers
and spiritual leaders
when he says prophesy he’s saying more
than teach the bible
to prophesy to give a prophetic word
was to take god’s truth
and apply it to a specific situation
prophets didn’t come with vague verses
they came with specific relevant rhema
word to specific relevant
people in a specific relevant time
who are facing a specific relevant
scenarios
so this is not just general bible
teaching now there is a place
for people to learn the bible that’s a
good thing
but a prophetic word comes usually in
the bible in a desperate situation
it comes in a situation where stuff is
on collapse
okay so god will send a prophet with a
prophetic word that’s why
the new testament says despise not
prophecy
don’t reject a prophetic word that may
come through preaching
it may come through teaching but it’s
not a general
it’s not a general word it’s a
definitive word
for desperate times he says speak to the
bones now
these bones in disarray don’t have skin
muscles not intact uh they disunified
they scattered all over the place
it was a bad situation he says but i
want you to talk to him
and i want you to tell the bones he says
the word of the lord not human opinion
see we’ve got
cultural christians racial christians
political christians
what we need are some kingdom biblical
christians
okay some christians who take the word
of god
not like it’s the word of man with a
little god sprinkled on it
the bible is the voice of god in print
it is not one word to be put alongside
of
all words the bible says let god be true
and every man a liar
that means whoever disagrees with god is
wrong
no matter how much you like them okay no
matter how much you appreciate them go
ahead and like them and appreciate them
but they wrong when they disagree with
the word of the lord so
you prophesy my words
to the dry bones don’t give them
political strategy
don’t give them social strategy don’t
give them
uh of various theories you tell them
what i said but
relevantly based on my word
to their broken dry dead
non-productive situation so he says
prophesy to these dry bones
he comes and then he says
when you do that i will cause breath to
enter you
that you may come to life he gives a
promise
he says i know you don’t know how to fix
this problem but i know how to breathe
life into a lifeless situation
i know how to resurrect stuff that looks
like it’s died
i know how to bring hope to a hopeless
situation
we desperately need the dry bones of the
church
to become alive again vibrant again
potent again a non-compromising church
full of love and full of compassion but
equally full of clarity
today we live in a day when too many
churches are giving an uncertain sound
where they’re trying to mimic the
culture but sprinkle enough
of god on it so it looks and sounds and
feels legitimate
that’s not what we need we need a
prophetic word today
a definitive word a non-compromising
word
and so he says if you want life you
better speak
my word to this difficult situation
because god checks with the church first
so when he does that he says i
looked after i proclaimed god’s word i
looked and see news were on them and
flesh grew
and the skin covered them he says i saw
something happening
when i proclaimed the prophetic word
there was a movement taking place
muscles coming together bones coming
together
skin i saw some shifting occurred
when the prophetic word was being
proclaimed
but there was still a problem because
according
to verse 7 and excuse me according to
verse 8
there was no breath in them
in other words like franklin
frankenstein
frankenstein was anatomically correct
but until he got a a jolt of lightning
it had no life the parts were there
but it still had no life so you can have
structure
and still no impact you can set up your
programs
you can set up your staff and you can be
structurally
anatomically impeccable
but still dry dead
hopeless helpless and non-impactful
but your structure is in place because
you’ve heard and
and listened to the word of god that’s
not enough
and this is where we get a curveball
it’s a big curveball
but it’s a critical curveball look
at what he says in verse 9. then he said
to me
the lord said to him prophesy to the
breath
prophesy son of man and say to the
breath
thus says the lord god
come from the four winds o breath
and breathe on the slain
that they come to life
he says prophesy to the breath wait a
minute
he had said earlier prophesied to the
bones
and why were the bones in the valley
because they have been whipped
it says to these who are slain they’ve
been beaten into submission
by the new home team
guess what the church has been slain
we’ve been beaten into submission by the
culture
the culture has said we don’t buy what
you say we don’t apprec we don’t value
what you think
we don’t care what your god says what
your bible says
or we don’t care what you say and we
going whip you
we gonna run over you and we gonna leave
you
out there as a dead church full of dry
bones it says
they were slain
we’ve been whipped now we’ve been
talking a good game we’ve been talking
about the power of god the sufficiency
of god
we’ve been talking about you know you
saw how you can’t get over so low you
can’t get under
so why you can’t get ready that’s
talking a good game
but it says they were slain they were
whipped
we’ve been whipped in our schools we’ve
been whipped in our neighborhoods
we’ve been whipped in our politics we’ve
been whipped
full of dry bones but now they got some
skin on because they didn’t heard some
prophecy
heard some words but he says listen to
this
prophesy to the breath
now the breath is the holy spirit from
the four winds
that’s the complete earth the holy
spirit
hovered over the earth in creation and
brought order
out of the chaotic environment
so that order took place where the water
was mixed with the land
and and uh uh where where things were
not
shaped properly it says the spirit of
god came
over it and brought harmony
in the middle of it that’s what we got
here
he says prophesied to the breath so
watch this
preaching the word is not enough he told
him to prophesy
the word of the lord and he prophesied
the word of the lord
now it was foundational it was critical
it was substantive it was meaningful but
it was insufficient
he says until you prophesied to the
breath
there will be no life let me put it
another way until the holy spirit is
engaged with the word the word will not
produce the life
that the word has been set up to produce
we need preachers and teachers spiritual
leaders if you will
who are tenaciously committed to the
inherent word of god
we need people who are not ashamed to
say thus saith the lord
with love and compassion and clarity
to the dry bones but we
also need preachers and teachers and
spiritual leaders
who prophesy to the spirit that is
who bring the holy spirit’s presence
alongside of the word because it’s the
spirit the scripture says
that gives life the bible is
a living book but the holy spirit
activates the book to produce the life
in the dry bones of the church that’s
been overrun by the secularism of the
culture
so he says prophesy to the breath
in other words the word of god i told
you to speak to the people
take that same word and speak it to the
spirit
connect you know the bible calls the
holy spirit
the spirit of truth did you know the
word it’s the word and spirit
and they must operate together if you
have the word without the spirit you
have
truth without life if you have the
spirit
without the word then you don’t have
the information necessary for the spirit
to work
to give life it must be
the spirit so look at this he says
prophesy to the bones
that’s the people who are slain but then
prophesy to the spirit
prophesy in the valley that’s earth
prophesy up in the
up in heaven because that’s the spirit
of god
the spirit of truth when brought
alongside
the word of god begins to transfer
bones in the valley that look like they
could never
be transformed information
you know jesus says in john chapter 5 he
says you search the scriptures
because in them you think you have
eternal life
but you don’t come to me in other words
you’re doing bible study and you’re
doing preaching and you’re teaching your
sunday school class
in your small group but you don’t have
the relationship
that’s needed for the bible to come
alive
and to produce life that’s why even in
bible teaching churches we aren’t seeing
people change
they’re hearing the word they’re
amending the word they’re agreeing with
the word
so they got some skin on they got some
muscles but they still don’t have life
because things aren’t changing and the
way you know you’re growing is you’re
changing
that is you’re being more conformed to
jesus christ we’ll talk about that in
our next session
but what he says is that i want you to
prophesy to the spirit
when you go to a restaurant
you go there to eat they give you a
written menu
that menu gives all that’s available to
you from that particular
establishment sometimes you can salivate
over the menu i mean the stuff looks
good that looks good
this looks good that looks good because
you’re excited about the menu
then comes a waiter or waitress and what
do they do they explain the menu to you
they will even say do you have any
questions
so they interact with what you read
so you read it and then they
proclaim it the way to a waitress they
tell you about it they explain it
but i bet after you’ve read it
after they’ve explained it i bet you
don’t get up and leave
because that’s not why you came you
didn’t come to read a menu
or just to have somebody preach it to
you
you came to eat in other words
you came to experience what the men you
talked about
we got a lot of christians who go to
church to eat
but are satisfied with reading the menu
and hearing from the waiter
behind the pulpit rather than engaging
with the holy spirit
in the old testament god the father was
a superstar
and jesus and the holy spirit are
mentioned
in the gospel jesus is the superstar and
the holy spirit
and the father are mentioned in the
church
age the holy spirit is the superstar
because jesus says i’m leaving but i’m
going to send you the spirit
and when you get the spirit you’ll get
life and you’ll get power
and he will glorify me
unless there is through worship prayer
and spiritual engagement with the holy
spirit
the prophetic word won’t be enough
now it is foundational it is critical
it is necessary but it won’t be
sufficient to bring life
to a lifeless church
throughout the bible god waits on his
people
before he moves you’ll see this over and
over again
he doesn’t just tell you what he’s going
to do he tells you what i want you to do
prior to me doing what i said i’m going
to do why because he wants to see faith
he wants to see that you take him at his
word he wants to see
you lead the way to demonstrate you have
confidence in god
we are a dry church in a hopeless
situation surrounded
by a decaying culture but if the
prophetic word
and our relationship with the holy
spirit is ever
activated when we don’t just show up for
bible study but we’re there for worship
we’re there to engage god in the process
something will happen and so he says
as i prophesied as he commanded me verse
10
and the breath came into them
and they came to life and stood on their
feet an exceedingly great army
it’s time to stand on your feet it’s
time for pastors to stand on their feet
it’s time for deacons and elders and
deaconesses to stand on their feet
it’s time for congregations to stand on
their feet it’s time to get up
because we we we land we we
we laying down as a valley of dry bones
talking a good game but seeing no
impact because we’re being controlled by
babylon now
because that’s exactly where we’re
living in an idolatrous secular culture
because of the idolatry of the church
but when the spirit of god engaged them
it was an
awesome army i like that it wasn’t just
an army
it was a show enough army it was a he
says it was a great
and awesome army now what do wamis do
last time i checked they fight last time
i checked they protect
last time i checked they helped things
to be governed properly
our fight is gone we’ve acquiesced to
the culture we’re like a team
that’s uh on foreign soil on enemy
territory
laying down so the enemy team can just
run up and down the field at will
you’ve seen games like that where the
other team is just giving up
we like that army we we’re driving we we
we’ve thrown in the towel
and i know we’ve thrown in the towel
because we’ve acquiesced to the culture
you see preachers changing their sermons
changing the biblical
view you see them acquiescing to popular
opinion
rather than standing lovingly
compassionately but clearly
on the revealed word of god
and as a result we’ve got
pastors in the valley pastoring
people in the valley and everybody drive
from the pulpit to the pew
and from the pool pew back to the pulpit
again
we need is a great army and a great army
is driven by a prophetic word
based on the written word but it is a
relevant word
consistent with the biblical word but
engages the holy spirit
i had a problem in my home
where the igniter in my um
in my heater went out so i was cold the
heat wasn’t coming in the house
i thought i needed me a new unit so i
called the
heating and air conditioning guy over he
looked at it he said no no you don’t
need a new unit
your igniter is not working that’s a
little teeny piece
but it sends the message for the pilot
to light
so the fire could come on so that the
heat could blow
but because the igniter wasn’t
connecting
all of the parts weren’t working
although they were there
the prophetic word puts the parts
together
the holy spirit called the igniter lets
the pilot come on
so the fire is lit that’s why one of the
names for the holy spirit
is fire because he’s the igniter he
he brings life to a difficult situation
so when the word and the spirit comes
together
something happened so look at what
happens verse 11.
then he said to me son of man these
bones are the whole house of israel
behold they say our bones are dried up
our hope is perished
we are completely cut off therefore
prophesy and say to them thus saith the
lord god
behold i will open your graves and cause
you to come up
out of your graves my people and i will
bring you into the land of israel
then you will know that i am the lord
when i have opened your graves and
caused you to come up
out of your graves my people i will put
my spirit within you
and you will come to life and i will
place
you on your own land then you will know
that i am the lord who has spoken and
done it declares the lord so watch this
god has let us dry up
god has let stuff get worse i call this
the passive wrath of god when he let
stuff get worse it’s worse
one pandemic on top of another pandemic
that another pandemic and then a variant
of them pandemic and
just one thing on top of another and god
let it happen
to show us how weak we are independent
of him he let it
happen and he let it get so bad that we
were without hope don’t have any answers
and then he says if you will do it my
way
based on the prophetic word and engaging
the holy spirit
through worship prayer fasting he says
i’m going to open the grave
because you know the bones become just
bones in the grave
i will open the grave and i will give
you life and then he says
and then you will know that i
the lord have done this so let me tell
you how god does this he lets things get
so bad
that only he can fix it he’ll let things
get so desperate
that only he can change it but he will
only do that on his terms
so that’s what we’re committed to we’re
committed to the unadulterated
uncompromising said in a loving and
compassionate way
but we are committed to the word of god
but
not as an end in itself because we need
the spirit of god to
activate it and set it on fire in the
hearts of spiritual leaders first and
then through them
to the people that they serve
now i hope that this is your commitment
i hope that this is your desire
and this is what this conference is all
about trying to encourage
strengthen and ignite you in your
service
to a different level of passion fire
desire goal not to the culture but
through the christ
not to the stands where they’re booing
and cheering
no but to the kingdom of god
based on his word when i was growing up
in baltimore maryland
we had duck pin bowling
now for those of you because that
doesn’t that’s not around much anymore
duck pin bowling was a small bowling
ball
that you used not the big one where you
put your fingers in it
and you rolled it and knocked down the
pins
back then the technology was very weak
wasn’t anything impressive so when the
when the entity came down
to pick up the pins it often would
leave pins behind it wouldn’t get them
all
because it was antiquated system in the
middle of that
you would regularly see the foot steps
of a person
behind the lanes going
up and down to pick up pins that had
been knocked over
and set them up straight again because
the equipment just didn’t
didn’t get the job done now you never
saw this guy’s face
he only saw his feet but his job he only
had one job
setting up pins that had been knocked
over well
the church has been knocked over it’s
been knocked over
by the bowling ball of the culture
that’s decimated our impact and
influence while we carry on with
programs
but there is an unseen person
who knows how to move from lane to lane
life to life
family to family church to church and
set up pens
that have been knocked over we don’t see
his face
but we can see his work when the pen
starts standing up again showing life
the world is waiting on the church and
don’t even know it
god is waiting on the church and he
tells us
he’s ready to set us up straight again
from being knocked over
in our valley of dry bones if he can
ever find
a church a group of churches that’s why
we’re initiating through the urban
alternative our three-point plan
to call churches together in every
community to get the dry bones working
again
so that the life of god can be seen
publicly
because this is not a day for secret
aging christians
in every community led by the church
because
they don’t know that their last hope is
the church
if we’re going to save the culture if
christ be not come
i hope you will recommit yourself to the
prophetic word
to the engagement of the holy spirit so
that
we can see the transformation and
revitalization
and impact in a culture that is under
judgment because the dry bones
are still located in the valley may we
start
that renewal and revival now
let’s pray and let’s ask god to lead us
in that direction father i thank you so
much for
your word which reveals to us what’s
wrong forgive me
and forgive us for where we have allowed
the culture and its idolatry to define
our belief system and where we have
lacked
the the guts
to lovingly and compassionately but with
clarity
bring truth to a decaying society
we love you and we need you and i invite
your spirit
through your word to activate your truth
to your people and then through your
people to a world
in desperate need we ask this in jesus
name
amen okay dr evans thank you so much for
that amazing message
pastors i hope you all are being blessed
like i am this is an amazing time
for leaders just to be blessed and
receive the word of god
from dr tony evans i now want to share
with you this amazing opportunity
to share in this ministry to support the
urban alternative
dr evans has been blessing us for years
pouring into pastors and this is our
opportunity to make sure that we support
this ministry
i want to share just how important this
ministry has been to me
personally the things that i have been
able to glean from being a son
of dr tony evans in the ministry of
oakland bible fellowship church and the
urban alternative
as i have shared with you i pastor here
locally in dallas
and as a launch to my ministry being a
part of the k.a.p
pastors has really pole vaulted my
ministry with the resources that i’ve
been receiving
being a part of the sessions i also use
these sessions to bless my
associate pastors my worship leaders i
know how much this ministry means to me
and i can only imagine that if you
continue to receive these resources
how much it will be a blessing to your
ministry and to all of your leaders
let’s take this opportunity just to
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that you will receive from being able to
be a giver to this ministry
i want to let you know that a gift of
any amount during this time
these are the resources that you receive
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you will also receive those gifts but in
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i want to encourage you again
please give and give with a generous
heart god tells us
in the word of god to give hilariously
and let’s do that to be able to bless
this ministry
now don’t forget that you have an
opportunity to join us for breakout
sessions later on today
we look forward to seeing you in our
second session god bless you real good
we look forward to seeing you again
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god is not going to bless a country or
culture
that comes up with his own rules and ask
him to bless it
we need more than a protest we need a
plan
tony has that plan for community
transformation through his unique
kingdom strategy
while many of us are waiting on god to
fix what’s wrong
he is waiting on us to step up as men
and women of faith
and do what’s right
[Music]
this three-part plan gives us a path for
change
that we can all create a symbol a
and act when we assemble as a unified
sacred gathering
we develop a heart that cares for others
because we’re
all created in the image of god
god has spoken about all these subjects
in crisis
but what we do unfortunately is pick and
choose what we obey
we have failed to follow the whole
council of god
by coming together we can address our
congregations and community
with a unified compassionate voice and
continue to learn
and grow through the power of authentic
discussion
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once we have laid this foundation we can
act
in such ways that bring about a unified
social impact
it’s time to take a stand not only in
what we say but also in what we do
it’s time for action it’s a defining
moment for us as citizens to decide
whether we want to be one nation under
god
or a divided nation apart from god and
if we don’t answer that question right
and if we don’t answer it quickly we
won’t be much of a nation at all
here’s what people don’t know about a
pastor’s to-do list
it can give you a thumb cramp
she just knows i’m her ride to practice
and i’m gonna be a while
or maybe not
[Applause]
[Music]
time to plan that ephesians series
nice
[Music]
whoops easter sunday
better pause the series maybe i’ll use
some of that sermon i preached at the
conference
[Music]
score
i know what you’re thinking you’re a
pastor you only work on sundays
[Music]
emergencies don’t stick to a schedule
when i get a call for help i’m prepared
with biblical
guidance
[Music]
time to write that sermon
let’s do this
i need the facts
i need the big picture
i need the details and i need them
all in one place
because when it’s time to preach you
gotta be
clear
[Music]
so sure i stay busy but i always
focus on what matters
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