Our tenets will give you a good glimpse into the way we are choosing to live and work together in the mission of the Freeing and Life-Giving Gospel thru Heart Revolution. You’ll better understand who we are and why we do what we do. Furthermore, if we disappoint you in some regard, these tenets may explain why we don’t do some of the things we don’t.
Clarity of Mission
There is so much to be done. It’s a given that we can’t do it all. But we know what our part, our role/mission is, and upon that we focus our resources and plans (because of our clarity and focus we refuse to be or do that which is someone else’s mission).
We are a message-centered mission. That message is about the revolution of the heart – walking with God from a new, good and free heart that we receive in exchange when we decide to give our lives to Jesus Christ. This good heart, in daily relation with God, is our means of motivation to renew our minds with the Truth that brings Freedom and a life-changing Revolution.
Irreversible Change
Our events, resources and decisions have the goal of "Irreversible Change". It’s not education, though that certainly happens, it’s not inspiration though that may be a result; it’s not encouragement though we hope it happens…. It’s irreversible change, transformation of hearts and lives. Hence the name "Revolution"... we believe the True Gospel is so radical that it literally changes everything.
Walk with God – follow the Wild Goose
Early Celtic followers of Jesus Christ referred to God's Spirit as the “Wild Goose”, a name rightly describing the unfettered, free and wild nature of God [John 3:8]. We submit our decisions to God and listen for His affirmation or counter-intuitive direction.
Crawl, Walk, Run
We view our development as an organization in stages: crawl, walk and run. This assumes a progression over time that requires patience, anticipation, and dreaming/planning/hoping. We are not now all that we will be.
Leadership Model
Heart Revolution strives to move forward by a community of leaders sharing their gifts, perspectives and the weight of their lives in a unified voice and direction. Final direction and decisions are left to a core leadership team, led by Heart Revolution founder David Ellis.
Team & Mission Model
We live and work together with the deep belief that our hearts are good. We are a New Covenant mission that believes God’s promise to “take away our heart of stone” and to “give us a new heart” has been accomplished by the work of Jesus Christ. We have good hearts. We appeal to the deepest and truest parts of one’s being, believing that as a Christian our deepest and truest desires are for that which is true, honorable, good, pure, & beautiful.
We will take the time to care for our own heart and not sacrifice our own heart nor the hearts of the ones we love for the mission. We will care for our hearts and those of our family. We may say “no” to a genuine opportunity, believing it is necessary for our own intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, for those we love most and for real life to flow from us. We want to give from abundance, not out of our desperation.
We deeply believe in the need to live this journey together as small "bands" of brothers and sisters, a place where genuine relationship and honesty can flourish, not as "accountability partners" but as men and women who practice their faith in a daily walk with God and call out the glory of each other to live "worthy of the call of Jesus Christ."
Operate by both Wisdom and Revelation
We live and work using the wisdom we’ve gained and listening to God, who at times may guide us in counter-intuitive directions. “…Choose seven men from among you who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom.” (Acts 6:3). “I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.” (Ephesians 1:17)
At times, that results in decisions that leave some disappointed or wondering what happened. We don’t pretend to know all the answers, but our role is to act with wisdom & experience yet always open to God’s direction in every decision.
Humility, Love and Forgiveness
All we have has been given to us as a gift from God… we remember this and pray that in all our dealings with people, whether they be for us or against us, would be marked by genuine humility, love and forgiveness.
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