Being a Safe Place

Helping followers of Christ to grow in being a Safe Place is a God-given passion for me. Being a safe place is not about playing it safe. Being a safe place is about wanting to be empowered and transformed by the Holy Spirit to think, speak and act more and more like Jesus Christ. Being a Safe Place is about wanting to live like Jesus and continue His ministry in the world today.

Being a Safe Place is a missional issue for the postmodern culture in which we live. Too often in our culture Christians are viewed as being UNsafe. We are the last people others turn to in their search for spirituality, purpose and meaning in life. Too often we are the last people others turn to with their pain, questions, doubts and struggles because they view Christians as being self-righteous, condemning, judgmental and hate-filled people.

Being a Safe Place is a missional issue. Jesus was a Safe Place person for the lost and searching, the wounded and weary. They came to Him, they were drawn to Him; and because they were, they had the opportunity for their lives to be amazingly transformed. To be a safe place is nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else than wanting to be transformed by the Holy Spirit to be more and more like Jesus in all we think, say, and do so that others have the opportunity to be encountered by the unshakable and extravagant love of Father God and the good news of His Kingdom way of life being restored now, not just in eternity.

More to come on being a safe place in future blogs.