Sunday 17th March

Lawrence Kirby shared about the Vision of Kāpiti Impact Church

​This vision is captured in the follow statements...

'A vibrant Church of influence and impact for Christ in Kāpiti and the world beyond.' 

'Encouraging, equipping and empowering people for LiFE'

This is a picture of what we could be. It's about Christ, vibrancy, community, life. 

Every person needs courage and encouragement is literally to put courage into someone! We are all called to encourage each other. Championing each other to be all God's called us to be. This is a call for all of us - not just for a few leaders.

Equipping is about getting the right tools for the right job. If we try to do something with the wrong tools we make a mess of it! 

Empowerment comes to us by the Holy Spirit. No matter who you are - you can have Holy Spirit power!  You need this to do what God's called you to do. 

We need to give people permission to step out in the power of God in their lives. Supernatural power! There's only so far we can go in our own strength, but by the power of God's Spirit we can see the Kingdom manifest. 

We use LiFE as an acronym for Living in Freedom Everyday. 

Fullness of life is strongly connected with freedom. 

The only was transformation takes place is through relationship - with God and with other people.

God wants us to work through the conflict, the hurt, the offence that comes when we're in relationship with others and with Him. Many challenges come to us because we don't necessarily do conflict well. 

Sometimes people hurt you intentionally or unintentionally and in those times we need Holy Spirit empowerment to forgive, because God first forgave us. To love, because God first loved us. 

Galatians 4:19
My little children, for whom I am again in [the pains of] labor until Christ is [completely and permanently] formed within you--

Ephesians 4:13-16
'This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.
Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. 

Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. 

He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.'

Relationship and love is all through this. Growth happens together as family.

Sometimes people "Speak the truth in love"... And really all they're doing is being offensive - giving their opinion and covering it with a religious mantra. Sometimes even with good intentions, how we communicate can be really unhelpful by pushing people down rather than build them up.

As Christians we are all anointed. If we don't see others through the lens of them being an anointed one, we can lean toward judging them and saying in our hearts, 'What I carry is more important than what you carry.' This is very damaging to relationship and does not build Kingdom unity!

As KIC we Love God & Love People in Freedom, with Wisdom, as we Journey. 

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