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Mobilise
By Tom Shaw
The City Church, Canterbury, UK
Can 1,600 students and twenties change the nations?
Mobilise 2008 began by posing this enormous question.
Gathering together is always an enormous privilege and a key time for challenging and equipping, but this year more than ever before there was a great unity and intensity to the message of the week.
Mark Driscoll brilliantly showed us the potential for seeing a lot more fruit by dramatically increasing our church-planting momentum and our passion for mission. I believe a trumpet has sounded loud and clear. The need for raising up leaders is greater than ever before.
Challenging Teaching and Passionate Worship
At Mobilise we sought to earth that message of increased momentum through challenging teaching and passionate worship. We began by looking at the need to clearly hear God's voice. P-J Smyth then challenged us to hold this life lightly as we live for eternity, before Stef Liston finished the week speaking powerfully and honestly about the challenge of weakness. I truly believe that this year there has been a great maturing and a fresh reminder of the high privilege and sober cost of what it means to be a disciple of Christ caught up in mission in the world.
The main sessions were coupled with a variety of outstanding seminars, whilst the afternoons gave the opportunity for people to find out what Newfrontiers is doing all around in the world by visiting the Mobilisation Zone. It was so exciting to see people networking with leaders from the UK and overseas, building relationships and taking the first steps towards getting involved in the enormous task of taking the gospel to every corner of this earth.
Importance of cities
Mark also helpfully highlighted the strategic importance of cities. If you can change a city, you can change a nation. This is a particularly poignant truth for us. Cities are exactly where you find university students and
an enormous number of graduates. The fact is that passionate students and twenties in the hands of a powerful God, represent an enormous and overwhelming potential.
As always, Mobilise is not just about an annual get-together, but about catching a fresh vision that we will run with all year round. I am already excited about coming back next year to hear stories of all that God has done amongst us.
‘Can 1,600 students and twenties change the nations?'
If we apply what we've heard and believe God for great things, the answer can only be, ‘Yes!'
Dates for next year: 7 - 10 July 2009, Brighton, UK |
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