It's a Big Week for 11 Year Olds

What was on your mind when you were 11?

How to get the raspberry jam off your homework?  What it would take for the cool kids to like you?  How to beat Mortal Kombat 3?

Making a financial commitment so your church could move to a new place, helping more people find Jesus and follow him fully?

If that last one seems out of place, I feel you.  But at least one 11 year old had exactly that on his mind this past weekend at The Journey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What happens to us when we grow up?  We get caught up in bills we have to pay, stuff we want to achieve, and progress we want to make.  We get sucked into a vortex of self-preservation.

And in the process we lose the wonder of generosity and that childlike, radical confidence in God to bless us when we look beyond our own needs and give.

We need half a million dollars in hand to move to the building on Route 4 and reach more people.  It won’t happen any other way except through giving – with the same childlike trust of the 11 year old who made this commitment.

Someone joked recently about how nice it would be for The Journey to receive a single, extravagant gift so we could just make this happen.  I really have no interest in that.  I don’t want the kingdom to move forward based upon the sacrifice of a single generous person.

I want it to move forward through a whole lot of people like you and me.  Because if we move to a new place and you and I weren’t a part of it through giving, we’ll miss the incredible blessing of seeing God respond to our faith.

The building isn’t the prize.  You and I giving radically to accomplish something big for God is the prize.

Are you in?  If so, click HERE to give right now toward Advance.

Or make a financial commitment this Sunday.  Ask God for direction about what you can afford… what you can sacrifice beyond what you can afford… and what you can believe God to accomplish through you.

It’s our “big week.”  This is it… what happens this week determines whether we move forward or hold back.  As our friend Pastor Matt Keller told us Sunday, it’s “go big or go home.”

At least one 11 year old has chosen to go big.

“I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children” (Luke 10:21 – ESV).

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