I’m writing this as I’m seated in a meeting of the AG General Presbytery. If you don’t know, the “GP’s” are made up of leaders from across the fellowship…pastors, superintendents, college presidents and other key leaders. These meetings are typically very focused on business that needs to be conducted so the fellowship can work collaboratively to be with Jesus on his mission.

Today, God interrupted the planned agenda. It was awesome. Slavic Radchuk shared a devotion in which he thanked the Assemblies of God in America for sending missionaries to the nations. But he pointed out that now God is sending the nations to America to bring revival to us. After he spoke, it was obvious to everyone that God desired to speak to us. We waited. We listened. Leaders rose to prophecy, pray and repent. We wept, we sang, we waited. One prophetic word was that we needed to dig holes in the ground to hold the water of revival that God is sending. The “holes” were acknowledged to be new churches. The theme of this meeting has strongly leaned in the direction of keeping the starting of new churches a strong focus of the AG and this visitation of the Lord seemed to affirm our determination to partner with Jesus in building His Church.

I think some really good stuff is going to come out of this. There is a rumor going around that many of our young leaders are becoming frustrated with the bureaucratic hoops of this mature family and are thinking about finding other groups to affiliate with. Believe me…I understand frustration with bureaucracy, but NOW is not the time to let organizational imperfections be the reason you decide to affiliate somewhere else…a perfect, frustration free organization does not exist! And if you go out looking for one, you are going to be even more frustrated than you feel right now. Be patient. Do the right stuff for the right reasons. God is working through us and it’s especially cool when we let Him work through us together!