10/2/22 - Bigger, Smaller, Deeper 2.0 - The Vision - Pastor Jason Fritz

We often repeat a couple of phrases at Illuminate…”Only God!” and “Where God guides, He provides.” This has been the history of our church; from our small beginnings in my living room six years ago, to serving over 2000 people each week in person and online today. Yet I believe the best is yet to come because God wants to do more than we could ask or think. Let’s have our faith expanded by the way Paul ends his prayer for the church in Ephesus.

"Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."
-Ephesians 3:20-21

You can almost feel the spontaneous break out in praise. This is driven by Paul’s understanding of God’s soveriegnty. There is no limit to what God can do in response to our prayers because his capability goes far above and beyond anything we could ever ask, dream or comprehend. We have been blown away by what God has done in our midst and we are so thankful. 

I’ll be stepping out of our Genesis series for a few weeks and bringing a special update. Last year at this time we rolled out the future vision of the church with three simple words: Bigger, Smaller, Deeper. “Bigger" means we want to fulfill Jesus’ words as he said, "I will build my church”, therefore we expect the church to grow. At the same time we want to grow “smaller" through personal gatherings that promote spiritual depth. This is what it means to go “deeper." Becoming a disciple of Jesus is the ultimate goal.