Dear Pastors,
Saturday was the latest Clarksville Prayer Group. It was a great time of prayer. During that time there were several things mentioned that I believe we should consider for corporate prayer throughout the city. First, the need for stronger communication and the flow of information in and among churches. For example, many of you may not have known about the Fall Festival that took place at Pastor Mike Cantrell's church - Bethel Community Church. (My children and I had a great time there so thank you Pastor Mike for doing a great ministry!) Another example; Pastor Tommy Vallejohas been heavily involved ministering to the gangs in Clarksville. And Pastor West of Church of Champions had a church donated to them! There are awesome things happening in the Kingdom of God in Clarksville!
Next to be mentioned for corporate prayer, is the need to build stronger relationships with one another. There is a quote that has floated around for a long time: “The strength of the wolf is in the pack and the strength of the pack is in the wolf.” We all need encouraging, sharpening, and developing from time to time. God desires this for all of His children. I believe the process that He uses to encourage, sharpen, and develop us is through our relationships with one another. It is vital that we, as the spiritual leaders in Clarksville, begin to network at a greater level than ever before. Please be encouraged to spend time with one another. And not necessarily a pastor you already have great relationship with. Take a pastor you barely know out for lunch, or just a cup of coffee and get to know your brother's heart for the city. Invite one another to your events. Remember we are in this for the Kingdom, not our individual churches. God did not design us to do this thing alone. Together we make a more completed picture of God. As the body is broken down into individual molecules, so is the body of the Christ. If we want it to be a healthy body, the head has to communicate to the arms, the legs, the lungs, and they all have to function together in order to move properly.
Please pray with me to see a church of 135,000 strong in Clarksville! In the Argentina revival there were meetings where 60,000 and 70,000 people were Born Again. Imagine if this happened in Clarksville! We'd be expanding the job market with the demand to hire more pastors! :-) Not to mention the ability it would give us to send out missionaries to reach the nations.
Lastly, pray for the reconsolidation and redistribution of resources. Imagine what would happen if the CHURCH began sharing resources? Imagine if next week the church with the best worship team in town sent out their worship team to lead at another church that needed help? Or a church in town with the best discipleship program in the country made themselves available to other churches and offered to train the leadership to do the same? As we all know in the story of the Tower of Babel - GOD HIMSELF said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. 7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech." (Ge 11:6-7) God says that nothing that they purpose to do will be impossible for them!!! Pastors let us join together and unite for the sake of the Kingdom! If we unite how much more will this Scripture be true?
It is with this in mind I would like to ask you about doing a Church of Clarksville Community Calendar. It will be a place where we all put our events on one page and all the people of God in Clarksville can see what is transpiring in the Church across the board. This will also help us all with scheduling conflicts. If we knew what our brothers/sisters were doing, we could coordinate our efforts and be faithful stewards over what God has given us in regards to our time and our relationships with one another. And we can also provide better prayer coverage for these events so we may better blanket Clarksville with the GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ.
Thank you for your time and please any thoughts, suggestions, or hate mail is welcomed :)
