Esse quam videri: "To be, rather than to appear"

Unleashing the power of everybody

The subtitle of the book “Volunteer Revolution”, as noted above, is “unleashing the power of everybody”.  This book was amazing! 

See below for some points of interest:

• Every member is a minister.
• As leaders, we have an opportunity to invite people to be used by God in ways that they never imagined.  We have the opportunity to empower them to develop gifts that they didn’t even know that they had!
• In the Bible, Solomon sought money, power, pleasure, fame, and celebrity status.  At the end of his efforts, he said “vanity, vanity..all is vanity”.  All of this is like chasing the wind.  We weren’t created, however, to chase the wind; rather, we were created to join God on a mission.
• Volunteers can transform society and at the same time find deep personal satisfaction.
• The power of the church truly is the power of everybody as men and women, young and old, offer their gifts.
• What do you have to offer?  More than you think.  You have the gifts and talents you were born with.  The passions that inspire you.  The blessings of education.  The skills you have honed as you worked at home or in the marketplace.  The life experiences that have matured you.  The pain that has deepened you.  The love for your neighbor that spills from God’s heart into yours.
• Once you decide to invest the blessings that God has given to you into the lives of others, you’ll find the seed of something sown into your soul.
• God is at work 24/7 filling believers with grace, mercy, and power to reclaim, redeem, and fix this broken planet.  He’s got His work gloves on – He calls us to roll up our sleeves and join Him with our talents, our money, our time, and our passions.
• When we put our heads on our pillows, how awesome would it be to say “You know what I did today.  I teamed up with God to change the world!”.
• “Taking up your cross and following me” – this means that following Jesus requires sacrifice, hardship, and death to something selfish inside of us.
• People who let God lead them to where He wants them to serve find an incredible sense of satisfaction and joy.
• Sincere energized servanthood must flow from an ongoing daily experience of God’s presence and love.
• Every revolution demands revolutionaries – high spirited individuals who dream of a day when things will be different.  But they do more than dream, they give their best to the cause – they relentlessly serve the collective effort.
• There may be a good deed out there with your name written on it.

I would encourage you to consider purchasing this book to help you 1) make impressions in the lives of others and 2) give you fresh passion to encourage others to join you in volunteering for Kingdom service!

You can purchase it at Amazon by clicking here.