Positioned for Eternal Impact

God is doing something beautiful in the PCG! As we’ve stressed at General Assembly and now here in this magazine, we have an opportunity to seize Eternal Impact like never before. We are “Excel-erating Our Missional Pace” as we turn the corner to finish this prophetic Decade of Harvest with a surge of missional fervor that longs for greater Eternal Impact!

Many things in our past have led us to this moment. We have had holy convocations and consecrated assemblies seeking for God’s favor as we repented, re-committed, and cried out for revival. We have had strong words spoken into our fellowship over the decades. We have experienced reformational moves, seasons of prayer and fasting, and have grappled with moving forward while maintaining the strong foundations of our past. We have experienced our moments of crisis along with moments of miracles and momentum. Now, we are entering a season of great harvest and Eternal Impact!

As this new generation is emerging with an intense hunger for God, they aren’t primarily seeking evidence and exegesis, they are seeking to experience the living God, the lover of their soul, the one who created them, the one who has a plan and purpose for them. They are not that interested in the flash and the flare. They are not that interested in excessive reasoning and intellectual proofs. (The atheists and deconstructionists have been focusing on that.) They are interested in tasting and seeing that the Lord is real and that He is really good! As Pentecostals we have that, and we love that! We know God. We experience God and love to lead others to know and experience Him too. Pentecost is a Heaven-sent answer for the heart’s cry to experience God. We are in the right place at the right time, again!

Our history, combined with our current initiatives of One Mission—One Movement, Forerunner Experience, online credential series, church coaching, and getting our financial house in order, all position us for Eternal Impact. Add to all that the fact that we chose a couple of life-long veterans of missional movement, Bishop Virgil Kincaid and Women’s Ministries Director Janie Kincaid, and we realize that our position continues to strengthen! Choosinganother power couple, Karl and Jennifer Hargestam, to lead our Global Missions Department—with their apostolic, creative, fruitful, solution based, abundance thinking, along with their attractive and inspiring anointings—was another decision that sets the PCG up for maybe our greatest season of Eternal Impact ever! God is up to something beautiful, and I am so happy to be part of this to help in any and every way I can. I hope you are too!

How can you and I participate in this “One Story Written For Eternal Impact?” We can be missional, supportive, positive, and run with our missional leaders. We can run with our promised Decade of Harvest. You and I can focus on all the things that will “Excel-erate our Missional Pace” personally, locally, in our districts, our nation, and our world! We can’t afford to wait and spectate. We must engage and run together, making the most of our life and our opportunities, so we can make the Eternal Impact that God has assigned us.

The truth is that the next-generations are already engaging in these ways! There are signs of revival all around Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and beyond. In fact, consider the following statements from Carey Nieuwhof’s podcast and the other sources cited below.

• “Atheism is pretty much gone amongst young people. The evidence is that it’s gone down from 25% amongst Gen Y, to something like 20% amongst Gen X, and 13% in Gen Z. So, it has been reduced by about 50%”

• “In London people are coming to church because they have a genuine faith, their faith is alive, and they care passionately about Jesus! Most guests are ages 18-35 and Holy Trinity Brompton church in London has planted 184 churches that are full and experiencing revival. This is happening around the world too.”

• “These next-gen young people are less materialistic, less promiscuous, and have a new interest in spirituality and faith. There is a big revival at Oxford too! (Many say their spiritual hunger is connected to the prayers of generations that preceded them.)”

• “The post-Christian season is ending and there is a new season of pre-Christan or pre-revival context in the hearts of people. One outcome of hitting rock bottom is there is no dealing with deconstruction now, they don’t know anything about God, so this is all new and exciting to them.”

• “There are sudden, surprising, supernatural, significant and sustained salvations!”

• “It’s going to take loads of people, churches, leaders, nations and denominations. One church is never going to change a city, and one ministry is never going to change a nation. We’re not in competition; we must be in unity!”

• “It is worth fighting for. The blessings outweigh the battles.”

• “In England, male Gen-Z church attendance in 2018 was about 4%. Now it is around 21% and these young men are at the center of revival!”

• “The big question might be, “Do we really want it?” because the cost is really high. Will we weep, pray, fast? Are we willing to pay the price in spiritual tenacity that it takes to get there?”

Many of us have heard about moves of God on college campuses. God is also moving in mega churches, denominations, major cities, and nations around the world. The first fruits of revival are all around us and among us. But don’t miss this: The next move of God isn’t just for the next generation; it’s for all generations. We are included too. We have only to pursue God and continue writing One Story for Eternal Impact.

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