More Gathering Notes

Reforms and Clarity
Helpers – (banks of the river) 
Communication Ideas 
The Next Gathering

Reforms and Clarity in Awaken
Awaken is not a ministry, it’s a movement. 
Kickstarted this movement – message God placed on our hearts.

Word of the Lord for this week – from Acts, God put a message in Phillip, Paul and Peter in the beginning of Acts to go to the Gentiles, new time in the church
We are in a new time in the church, God wants to awaken them.

Responsibility lies 90% on the individual and 10% on the corporate. 90% of the awakening happens when we are in our individual lives. This will all take place individually.
Think about how the message is producing things in our lives.
This is to charge us and to continue this on – the time when we come together is not the main event of awakening.

It is clear to us that this message is for the Church, its always been for the church. It’s to Awaken those who are already believers, it’s the body. The body is sleeping and we are to wake it up.

The reason we are focusing on the church is so the world will be effected. The only reason for reaching the lost is the body of Christ moving. The core depth of our heart is for the lost, but we need the body of Christ to reach up into its potential.

Many of us are focused in our ministry to the lost, authority in us comes from that, we’re praying for the sick because then when we come back to the church we have a lot of this this this to show them, and a lot of this comes from us being with the lost.

Being a part of Awaken is not our sole purpose in life – the church. We have gathered together because we have been part of overseas missions and we have such a heart for the body of Christ to see what God is doing

I am very much called to the lost, I’ll be focusing on the lost in India. But this movement is to the lost

Question: Is this for America or the worldwide church. What is your Jerusalem? All of our Jerusalems will be different.

It’s a Network of networks
We’re seeing that happen. Each of us is continuing to bring more people in, from our networks and spheres. We’re one network and it kind of expands. A network of networks is the beginning of a movement.

It’s undefined
A movement has to be undefined. We’ve got to remember that as soon as we try to form boundaries it’ll stop movement.
It’s like trying to grasp water. If we try to contain it.
Whenever we are able to record the fruit of this we’re out of line, we shouldn’t be able to do this and know whats going on.

These were some of the key reforms or clarity that we’ve gone about.

A river does have banks, a movement without some kind of containment. Not full containment but some so that we can share it.

Helpers

CONTAINERS/ River banks

The God of the Bible is the God of today
- if talking to someone that doesn’t like the God of the Bible, then you can elaborate more

Moving Body of Christ from believing in God to following God

We believe that it is chapter 29 of Acts.
28 Chapters in Acts, beginning of the history of the church, and it has no ending. There is no ending, it just continues. God wanted to show that its continuing, the story is still being written. We are in chapter 29 today.
Its not just about believing this stuff, but stepping into it today

God is active all over the world today, are you?

Those can kind of contain this movement but its not fully containing everything.

The way you communicate the message of Awaken is different with each person, just like we saw with Angela. The way that she communicated that is different from the way that Dan did. That was her way of communicating that to her environment.

For you, maybe education setting, Matt – small group of guys
Jen – people she’s giving shots to

How is it coming out in your own life?


Connection
How do we stay connected?

Website – Chapter29.net (as in network whoo whooo)
Right now we have a blog going on, doesn’t seem to flow or work really.
What makes me go to a website? News
What if we get a calendar out, assign each of you two weeks of the year and they are responsible for it. During those two weeks, provide a written story of what God is doing and send a picture in to Andrew. Then that will be posted newly each week.

There will be an area to comment.
It might be three things – story, picture, prayer request

Second thing – come to the gathering if this is something you feel called to
Do you see yourself as better off connected to this group than not connected in living out the call of God on your life?
Not the same equipping every year, new focus and it will build in this.

Also put together a profile for each person


Next Gathering

Unique about this group – people who come into this a lot of us are longing for this, we’re like YES how can we do this better?

Something talking to Andy Bird about – what we’ve been doing in this community we have been doing a lot of community building and sharing stories but not a lot of a focus on equipping. How can we actually equip them to go out and do this.

Some of you have heard of Bill Johnson – church on fire, trying to make district a cancer free zone.
They had so many people getting excited and wanted to do things that were going on but they weren’t able to help them all, so they started schools
School of the Supernatural – 1-3 years
School of prophets – 2 weeks
Wanting to know how do I do this? They said come and learn for 2 weeks

We have a similar things, maybe we need to start more equipping in this time, say they can come during this time of gathering and we can equip you to be an awakener better. 
What does that look like? We don’t want to make a YWAM school or structured thing
We want to keep the organic thing in this, that’s what is cool is that we can’t define ir or get the credit for it.

We want to do it next year and invite new ingredients, invite people to come and bring these ingredients in not a structured thing, but invite them, tell them who we are and have them be a part of us and ask what they feel we should do and go with it.

Maybe somebody focused on speaking and then another person focused on media, focusing on equipping us to do what we feel called to do.

A person could come to the gathering next year and if they come we may never see them again but we can have them leave more equipped.

Move from just gathering to also equipping
Last week of June, first week of July


Matt: Heart with profiles – see where people are so that people can start initiating missions trips saying they want to go places together on trips. We want to have this available.

Dan S: I believe we’re on the edge of something. Like Jacqui said, this is happening all over. God has not given us like the secret key, we have to realize that other people have this same message and heart.
God gave these people the same message and heart

God’s message to the church is I want you to wake up and realize that the Holy Spirit is inside of you and I want you to live in it because I’m the same!

We can feel it, its within us, we witness to it. I also believe that it is no coincidence that we are here, that we are at the core of this. There is a reason that God has drawn us into this organic core of whats going on.
Even at the next gathering you all have authority to say this is where its going and this is where its been.
Not coincidence that you are all here at the beginning rather than in ten years or something
Hold onto that, God is doing something, we all sense it but we can’t grasp it.

I want to thank you guys for coming, and those who have stuck with me. I know you are not following me.

In the past years with Awaken I know I’ve made some mistakes, things that I wish we would have done but I am so blown away by the faith in this group, the tenacity to hold on to the word of the Lord even when its tough.

“I wonder if God just put Awaken in my life to humble me all the time, because that’s what it does”

Its trying to do something that doesn’t have a template.

Shawn: Important to highlight this 90/10% thing
Dan is not trying to get out of leadership or lessen his responsibility to the group, this is something of the Lord. The Awaken vision and what God has called it to be Dan is 110% in it. It might sound like he is exiting, I don’t believe at all that this is what it is. Take solace in that, security in that, as a leader he is committed to the vision.

Garrett: I just want to thank you for being obedient and faithful to the vision. Your faithfulness is why we are here, praise God for choosing you

Dan S: I leave tomorrow morning, I’m going to Delhi, I’ll get there at night. We’ve been praying about going back to Darhmsala, we will triple the population of Christians there while we’re there.
I didn’t plan on bringing a team there, but God has connected us with the Tibetians through stuff with the Dali Lama’s family. It’s been going for 2-3 years now, I met the Dali Lamas’ sister.
God opened a door for me to go into the secretary of the Dali Lama and hung out with his kids and his family.
They asked us about Jesus, asked us to go to church.

God called to Kona, really lead outreach team?

In India I would go and pray around the epicenter of Tibetian Buddhism, and I would pray that God would just bring somebody, and now I believe that God may call some people from this team I’m taking in (7 people) to stay there long term

Its one of the darker places I’ve been spiritually, would love your prayers, at least through December, maybe longer.

Words for Dan

Look through God’s eyes, don’t try to pop open the door with a crowbar, because the keys are on the wall

God is really proud of you. What you are doing is way over above what most would do, God has tremendous pleasure of you as a son. Stoked to put blessing on you

Team - the weakest person on your team is going to open up huge doors, don’t look down on them.

Athena – Remain vulnerable with us if there is a time you need prayer, you guys need to go in on high alert with spiritual guard up at all times. Stepping into a spiritual battle ground, stand firm

Shawn: I would imagine soon you will be with the Dali Lama and the spiritual stakes will be higher, and we need to cover him tenfold

Mike: Give wisdom, affirm that you do have everything you need to lead the team.
You HAVE the wisdom

Brittney – Isaiah 43

Jen – obedience, obedience, obedience. it might be that strategies that you have had before may not work