Expansion

What is expansion? I always think about when I was a kid and we used to get those little dried up animals from the 25 cent machines. We would take them home put them in a large bowl of water and watch them grow to triple the size of what they were. In amazement we would wonder how in the world could a bowl of water make that little toy expand into this spongy, gross, wet, slimy dinosaur? The funny part is that this describes what God has been laying on my heart lately. How do we grow people to be a spongy, gross, wet, slimy dinosaur. Ok, not necessarily that wonder depiction of a dinosaur but how do we expand ourselves into the lives of others. In a world where we see more of a fatherless generation than we have ever seen how do we become fathers to the fatherless. How do we raise up people who lead along side of us? Not us being the ministry but all of us being ministry together. Its not about who's name is on the door of the ministry. Our culture is so good a defining anything by its leaders. Look at Apple, when there was rumor that Steve Jobs had a heart attack the stock of Apple actually fell because they thought they lost there leader. Read the gospels and see how many times Jesus told them not to put emphasis on him but on what God had done to them through healing, being set free or whatever it was. This to me isnt about another church model its about the heartbeat of spiritual leadership. Its about the impartation of the DNA that God has created in me to lead and about the DNA around me that have DNA to lead. It never is about me or you or anyone else its about the Jesus that lives and dwells among up that make many stronger then one by himself.

Ecclesiates 4:12
"Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken"

My heart is that we expand our life (the river of life) into those that surround us. That we intentionally reach the potential in us and draw it out in those around us.