The other day in Staff Pastor Luke shared some things from his heart.  Three things in particular stuck out to me and I would like to share them with you.  His chat was titled “3 Cultures for PFA to Grow”.

1.  A Culture of Prayer on our Campus

2.  A Culture of Change

3.  A Culture of Ministry to Young Families

 When it comes to the first point about prayer, my first thought was “well we already have a prayer center that is open 24 hours a day”.  This is exactly why he brought this up.  He challenged us not to fool ourselves into thinking we have a culture a prayer just because we have a ministry and building dedicated to it.  In other words we must develop a culture of prayer in all our ministries that seek the direction from the Lord and where He can take the church if we will let Him.  In order to do this we have to raise up leaders that pray in our ministries.  Are we doing this?

 Secondly on the culture of change…..  He said and I quote “In order to grow we have to change”.  Do I agree?  YES!  Is it always easy?  NO!  But the bottom line is “it is not about me” it is about souls!  We have to value change!  And truthfully I have to say that change seems to be a major value of PFA.  Let me challenge you to commit to this value of change.  It will make life more enjoyable and relevant in your pursuit of souls.

And that third point about young families being a culture focus of ours is great!  I understand that every lost soul should be focused on as it is our job to “Preach the gospel to all of creation”.  I get that! I really do! At the same time you look some statistics and the data shows %80 of people who know Christ came to him before the age of 18.  Not that we should only go after that age group but we should have a culture of heavy concentration to reach as many of that age with the message of Christ as possible.  Pastor Luke said this… “We must pour out our best resources into the area that are most likely to touch the most lives”.  I agree.  reach them all but make it a priority to reach the young families in order to better reach the world!

There may not be anything profound in my writing today but the three points Pastor Luke Barnett has made are rich with vision.  I challenge you to grab the vision and run with it if you attend Phoenix First Assembly.  If you attend another house of worship then I challenge you to reach out to your Pastor and see where He desires to lead you and your church.  Remember what the Bible says “The Harvest is plenty but the labors are few”.