Walking into the Deep

It’s been two years now that I can look back and never thought in all my wildest dreams; I will be where I am today. Since becoming Senior Pastor of my wonderful church, God has been really speaking to me and asking me to do things that, I thought, would be impossible. God and I have had many conversations over and over again and every time, He made many great points. I decided to do a LIFE Group campus in a near city where we hold our worship services. It took everything that was within me to have enough faith to step out and dive in to the deep.

I’m reminded in bible school where the anointed, educated theologian Dr. Jan Paron said something that I will never forget. I was sitting in “Leading a multi-diverse church” class and she said …”We need to take the gospel, outside of our four walls”. I have heard it many times, but this time, I light came on, I stepped into the clue bus, I had a revelation. Wow! That was powerful and deep. I literally vision my church family in our worship service and the four walls of the church building folding back to the ground as if God had a box cutter and cut the corners of our box/concrete building, and each wall just folded back like cardboard. I knew what God wanted me to do.

So here I go, some 17 weeks later, and we are up to 20 people who are in our first Life Group. I wish I could tell you that I showed up and everyone was their waiting to get feed, but that is not the case. At times it was a few, and I got disappointed, but God said do it, continue on, I will never leave you nor forsake you, I got your back, this is the process that you have to go through. He said your Sun Stand Still prayer will come to pass.

Because I obeyed, because I was humbled, because I was willing to listen and reposition myself to proceed and move within His purpose, Our church family has grown and I can see God’s hand in my life.

I don’t want to stand in the sidelines or at the bench watching everything happen, I want to be smack in the middle of the move of God.

If you are reading this, the prayers that you prayed, will come to pass, just hang in there, DON’T give up, He’s not through with YOU yet. The dreams that you once had, shall be revived and refreshed. The carreer you thought you lost, you’ll get back. Your finances might be low, but He is still Jehova Jireh “My Provider”. If you got bad news from the doctor, you shall be healed. The prayers that you’ve prayed, the answers on its way.

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Bridging the Gap for Unity in the Multicultural Church: Ten Leadership Traits

Awesome Ten Leadership Traits

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Jan Paron, PhD | November 5, 2021

Over the last year, I researched six bridging the gap actions for biblical unity in different multicultural churches from urban regions across the country. The actions involved intentionality, openness, adaptability, calling, and impartiality/inclusion and communication.[1]  My goal was to uncover trends and practices of thriving, heterogeneous multicultural churches that had experienced renewal or turnaround. Along the way, I noticed patterns in leadership qualities emerge from pastors of these churches. These traits supported the fifth bridging the gap action, the call to the all, ministering to the all of society.[2]  In all, ten initial qualities emerged that distinguished leaders of uncommon character. Pastoring a multicultural church comes with challenges and successes, said and unsaid in current writings. Even though these findings represent preliminary research, they give insight for further research in multicultural church turnaround and discussion for training program development of future leaders…

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