Trustworthy – Part 1

If there is one prayer that we have prayed since the beginning of Next Level Church 6 years ago it is, “To be found Trustworthy.” Our heart is that God would see fit to trust us with souls for His Kingdom’s sake. More than grow a big ministry, or make a big impact, etc. Our heart as a leadership team has been for God to find us Worthy of His Trust.

After all, when God can trust us with more influence and more souls, then He’ll obviously do that, right? I mean, He’s more in love with people then we are! He’s more passionate about lost, hurting and broken people finding their way back to Him then we are! He’s more in love with the idea of People coming into relationship with Him than we’ll ever be.

So when we think of Church Growth, or ministry expansion, we must first think in terms of being found Trustworthy. That’s what this weeks blogs are all about..

What does it mean to be found trustworthy? I think it first means: Listening. As we talked about last week, listening is a highly underrated, and yet highly necessary Spiritual Discipline. Here are a few thoughts:

1. Listen to God. Being trustworthy is about listening to the voice and heartbeat of God. If we’re not keeping our ear close to His heart, we’ll get distracted by the screaming pace of the world around us.

2. Listen to People. We can’t lead people we don’t know. What systems are in place in your organization to allow you to listen to the people you lead?

3. Listen to your heart. Unless we’re being true to ourselves and who God has created us to be, we’ll never create the kind of organization God wants us to create. Lead an organization that you would like to attend, or do business with. That’s got everything to do with listening to your heart.

Being found Trustworthy starts with Listening. How are you doing at that? If the answer is, “Not Well.” Why not review last week’s series of blogs.

Just a bloggish thought,

Matt