We know God has a dream for the church. Scripture describes for us many details about the kind of church God intended.  He promises a very powerful gift to the Body when we are passionate to stay on track with the purpose and dream He initiated for the church - the extraordinary power of His Spirit.  If you've ever been involved in ministry without the anointing of God, you know what a job ministry becomes - powerless, unfulfilling, lacking the vitality of what should be in the Body of Christ.  Man’s efforts + God’s Anointing = The Church of His Dreams.

4 Key Alignment Challenges to Experience God’s Strong Support:

1.  Leading, preparing, envisioning and articulating a church that God would choose to bless.  With the understanding that God chooses to anoint or abandon ministry, depending on its intent, the question became, “If God has a dream and passion for the church, what type of church or ministry would God choose to anoint?”  “If the blessing and anointing of God were on a congregation or ministry, what would happen as a result?” 

2.  Preparation for the blessing of God before it arrives.  This preparation is simply building a foundation for ministry before that ministry and more people actually arrive. 

3.  Organizing the extra-ordinary care and development of people.  Challenging leaders to re-think their personal definition of “extra-ordinary care” through how we are truly heartbroken for new people, to “build people using their church and ministry rather than using people to build and accomplish their work, church, and ministry.”

4.  Raising the value of new and lost people to a ministry - the passion and compelling reason for the church – seeing new and lost people as God’s ultimate reward for ministry done well.  Lose this focus and compelling reason for a Church, and the anointed church ceases to exist. 

Want to be a church of God's dreams?  Hold off on planning another outreach event, evangelistic endeavor, or seasonal production until these four alignment challenges are strong and in place.  There's nothing worse that inviting people to dinner, only to forget to cook the meal.