another pastoral meeting...

ya...another Bread of Life church pastoral meeting in So. California yesterday. It took me 45 min to drive down to Irvine to meet up with the rest of the pastors from So. Cali including senior pastor Tong from our mother church in San Jose. Well...it was an interesting gathering. Food was great and pastor Tong's sharing was exactly what we are going through; he believes that new things, new revelation, new faith, new leadership, etc is what God has been doing around the world. And we need to catch what God is doing.
All church leaders shared about what's happening lately in their churches.
I really respect and honor these pastors; they have fought the war for a long time, they've been standing at their posts for the Lord with perseverance and patience. Although one pastor, pastor Timothy, is resigning from his church, he still will continue to minister to other churches through his teaching. He has been faithfully pastoring that church for 5 years; that's all what God cares about, I believe. It's our faithfulness and goodness. It's His church! Maybe some of us are not the "right" material to grow a BIG church; but as long as we are faithful, God is pleased. Pastor Andrew Chen is taking a 2 months leave, he and his leadership team decided to let him take a short term break; I am not gonna disclose why they do it but they really love their pastor, I believe.
Almost all the senior pastors agree that the senior pastors are the one stopping their congregation from growing. Isn't that ironic? They say, when the senior pastor is absent, the congregation will be forced to raise up to serve and to take leadership; through that, the congregation will rely on God more and become mature. Maybe, maybe not. But I don't want to be the one who stops people from growing, period.

Time to go city invasion...be back.