Today during lunch I had the privilege of speaking to the Mecklenburg Kiwanis Club. I was invited by Valerie, a Kiwanis member and an employee I serve at Bonded Logistics.
When Valerie
asked me to speak I didn’t know much about the Kiwanis Club, but I have since
learned that Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to
changing the world one child and one community at a time. Their values are honorable and compatible to biblical teaching, even though they are not considerable an evangelical organization. After Valerie told me they were seeking to grow their club I felt led to share from Matthew 13:31-33, the Parable of the Mustard Seed and the Parable of the Leaven. But not before I took about 10 minutes to share about Corporate Chaplains of America. These parables not only refer to the Kingdom of God, but to growth in life as well and that was how I applied this verse to their strategy of growth. The mustard seed emphasizes growth and the yeast (leaven) represents permeation and transformation. Jesus was emphasizing the possibility and potential that would be the Kingdom of God. It would start out small and insignificant but would quickly spread throughout the Roman Empire and later to the known world. I concluded my speech with three principles of application for their growth:
1) Prayerfully seek God as you develop your vision and strategy for growth
2) Like
a seed, there will be a delay between initiating your strategy and its fulfillment
3) Like yeast, change is not just gradual, it will be inevitable.
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