Prioritise the presence in the church, and you get the kingdom in the city.
Reopening the Wells
It is all too easy to treat faith like a spreadsheet. Between school runs, crammed diaries, and the quiet weight of fatigue, we weigh up what following Jesus will take from us — and if you calculate the cost, you will almost certainly talk yourself out of it.
Yet we are invited into something far deeper than cautious self-preservation. Drawing from Isaac reopening his father’s wells in Genesis and Christ’s bold manifesto in Isaiah 61, this talk cuts straight through our hesitation. We are being shaped into an Isaiah 61 people: those entrusted with good news, anointed to bring the comfort and freedom of heaven into local places, and called to say, “I’m going to do it anyway.”
Whether in church planting, fostering and adoption, community renewal, or investing in the next generation, our work begins with one decisive posture: prioritising God’s presence above all else. If you are weary of isolated, half-hearted routines and long to see genuine spiritual renewal take root across our land, listen in and discover what happens when you step past the calculator and truly count the cost.
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