ICAF CONNECT_JUNE ISSUE

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Taking Charge of Change Through True Connection & Covenant Relationships, the ICAF is Building the RIGHT Leaders for our era. Taking Charge of Change M any of us are aware of the contemporary world and how God speaks to us now, through our experiences and through the communities where we live, as God spoke to our ancestors in the past. Many of us are also open to all that the contemporary world offers. So as we can see that the old and the new are not exclusive of each other. They are both important and necessary for the health and life of the Kingdom. If we are only living in the past and old and ignore the modern and new and the contemporary, then that is gross mismanagement of the Kingdom. On the other hand if we are only concerned about the new, modern, and contemporary, to the exclusion of the old and traditional then we are doing gross disservice to the Kingdom. Then we are not good scribes. The good scribe is the one who carefully preserves in his treasures both the old and the new. The International Christian Apostolic Fellowship has a mandate to bridge the divide and maintain that balance. If Christianity is to survive in viable denominations; churches, or their offshoots, must do whatever is necessary to become more actively relevant to global and local urgencies. "Churches," "fellowships," or whatever, have to be agents of Godly transformation to the contemporary world or they will be a big part of the world's problems. As in the beginning of Christianity, those who want a “Jesus” life have to be open to the Spirit of God in all areas of their being and must be willing to jump in and "make this old world a new world" (Martin Luther King, Jr.). A Synergy of Generations Synergy is defined as the condition where distinct groups work together in a cooperative arrangement in such a way that the total effect is greater than the sum of individual effects. In other words, the group accomplishes more working together than individual members could achieve working independently. The past and the old are our foundation but at the same time the future is our hope and destiny. One of the things that the ICAF represents is God’s desire to link multiple generations into a synergistic relationship once again. The Church has long suffered from a “generational gap” where there is little genuine appreciation, understanding, or cooperation between the older, middle, and younger generations of believers. God wants to bring these generations back together to infuse them with a common vision, a unified sense of purpose, and recognition of their mutual interdependence. Three generations moving together toward a shared goal can accomplish more than the sum of what each generation could achieve separately. This synergy of the generations is something that God promised He would bring about in the last days. The challenge is clear, to effectively engage our culture while maintaining our Biblical identity as the people of God. Our failure to do this and to explore new ways of faithfully expressing the Biblical call to discipleship will result in our becoming increasingly marginalized and irrelevant. A Wake up Call to the Church We must not withdraw into the safe and secure world that is familiar and precious to us within the history and traditions of our church. We should not close our eyes to its accelerating decline, but to face honestly, open-eyed, the challenge today’s church faces. Thereby communicating with and winning for God a world that, no longer believes that God really matters! That’s why the ICAF is presenting Pastors with the opportunity to take charge of change by helping Pastors take their ministries to the next level. The ICAF is bringing international change to their cities and churches, training them to be the finishing generation!
Integrating & Balancing the Old & New – Taking Charge of Details Our churches and organizations have become trapped in a kind of cultural captivity, in which our churches have increasingly become cultural islands – cut off from the mainland of life by an ever flowing and widening river of change. - Dr. William L. Harris, IV
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