John Burke is the pastor at Gateway Church in Austin, TX.
John Burke
Our motto was “if you can find us, you can come”
After a year of hearing nothing but silence from God I finally became silent.
The question that kept popping in my mind, “am I [God] enough?”
Teaching the 12 steps, I realized that I have an addiction to self. I have to have things go according to my ways. When God didn’t obey my ways, I realized that I was addicted.
Pharisees were good religious people addicted to self.
How many years have I spent selling a product I haven’t spent years drinking from deeply?
The way we love God is by responding to His Spirit.
John 15: Stay Connected, Fruit Happens
Stay connected moment by moment. Think hard and strategize on how to help people do this – everything else will take care of itself.
Galatians 5: walk by the spirit moment by moment
The point of grace is not to get into heaven, but is to connect us moment by moment with God.
Staying connected is so easy a child can do it … but do we do it?
Most Christians DO NOT follow Jesus in this way … maybe that is why we see the results we are seeing.
God alone changes people and only when they’re willing.
He just referred to “Dellionaires” and then said neo-nazis … that’s funny.
Help others stay connected and the community will grow. Help people stay connected and the gates of well don’t have a chance.
60/60 Experiment … didn’t catch what it was … google it.
60 day experiment to know God and community at Gateway… all in his book Soul Revolution.
Feel free to still google it.
My heart resonates with the point of leading others to live in connection to Christ (who know Christ) so that they will grow the community with others out of connection (and may have never known Christ).