I Can’t Ever Go Back to a Smaller Vision!

This is a testimony from one of the couples who attended a Phase 1 Training:

“My wife and I were talking to some friends about the Sunday School class we were all a part of. We agreed that there were times of great teaching, some good responses to questions posed, and everyone seemed to enjoy the group. However, I took the opportunity to share about how my wife and I had just finished Phase 1 training through BEYOND. 

During this training, we met regularly with a group of disciples, all focused on the same thing: to make reproducing disciples that would result in amazing movements of God’s Spirit throughout our communities and the world. Wow! What a mission! After we were no longer meeting together for the training, I began to miss being a part of a group with a God-sized mission. We attended several traditional Sunday School classes and small groups, but had not found a group driven by the kind of exciting vision to which we had grown accustomed during Phase 1.

In those Sunday school classes, we were acquiring more knowledge, but I yearned for a group to keep me accountable to obedience. My failure to obey what I was learning was no one’s fault but my own, but it helped when others on the same journey were asking me questions about how God was speaking to me, how I intended to obey His word, and then following up with me the next week! I understood more and more that my real fruit-bearing potential was directly tied to my obedience. Our friends showed some interest as we talked about our participation in Phase 1 and some of the perspective shifts we had experienced with regard to being a true disciple of Christ and making other disciples. We are now talking about starting a new Phase 1 group together, with the vision of not only growing as disciples, but making more disciples, who make more disciples, who make more disciples. I can’t ever go back to a smaller vision!”

Have you caught the vision of how God is multiplying his church around the world? Do you have the excitement and hope that it brings? Watch…then pray and ask God how YOU can be part of this audacious task.