HOW WE SEE
At the beginning of His ministry, Jesus announced:
"The time has come. The kingdom of God has come near."
- Mark 1:15
Then, in the midst of His ministry, He looked at the people around Him and saw something His disciples struggled to see:
“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.”
- Matthew 9:37
Those two realities are at the heart of what we call Harvest Forward.
The Kingdom is near.
The harvest is plentiful.
What might we uncover if we learned to look for both at the same time?
NEW DEPTH.
TWO LENSES.
Harvest Forward looks through two lenses: KINGDOM + HARVEST
The Kingdom lens begins with Jesus' announcement that the Kingdom has come near. It asks:
If the Kingdom is near, where is Jesus already at work?
The Harvest lens begins with Jesus' observation that the harvest is plentiful. It asks:
If the Harvest is plentiful, what is already happening around us?
We look through both lenses simultaneously. We pay attention to what is happening in people’s lives and look for where Jesus is already present. In doing so, we begin to uncover the Kingdom in the harvest, in places we might have missed before.
THIS ISN'T A MODEL TO COPY
Your harvest is different, and your context is different. Whatever Kingdom expression emerges from your adventure of uncovery should be different too.
UNCOVERY
When you start with Jesus in the harvest, you don’t always know where you’re going.
That’s the point.
Harvest Forward isn’t about arriving with the answer. It’s about uncovering what is already there but difficult to see from where you’re standing.
It takes time and effort to challenge your assumptions, question your methods, and clear away the clutter that keeps you from seeing what is already there.
That’s why we call it Uncovery.
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