A Different Way of Asking

When we knew God was inviting us to start this church, one of the earliest conversations we had was about our deep commitment to doing this with a team.  We have both been extremely blessed throughout the past 15 years to have served on several amazing staff teams.  We’re grateful to have worked with people of high capacity, deep character, and natural relational chemistry.  We would never think about trying this on our own.  We believe that if we’re going to experience God’s transformational impact on the world, we’re going to experience it together, as a team.

So early on in the process we began to pray for the team that God was assembling to lead Soul City Church with us. Through the prompting of a wise member of our Personal Council (which we will talk about in another post) we were challenged to ask people to PRAY instead of asking them to COME.  We know that we can cast a compelling vision – attract people towards the exciting idea of starting a new church – paint the idea of what Soul City Church can look like…but only GOD can lead them to come. We would much rather have a team that is assembled by God’s prompting vs. a team that we built through some savvy convincing and our vision casting capacities.

So instead of just asking people to COME – we have been asking people to PRAY.  It has proven to be a huge step in our own development of Dependence.  We have been able to put our complete trust in God to build this team.  It doesn’t mean that we don’t share the vision – it doesn’t mean that we don’t lean into looking for the right people to get on the soul city bus – but we have chosen to invite our potential staff and leadership team and future soul city starter team to simply pray.  To ask, listen, and respond to what God is doing through Soul City Church.

In fact, we would love for YOU to pray through the idea of joining what God is doing at Soul City Church.  To ask, and listen, and respond to however God is leading you right now in your life.  You can download our BE Prayerful exercise HERE.

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