Trinity Vineyard Church Nakuru

The Kingdom of God has an open invitation to ALL. This makes the Kingdom of God a Kingdom full of diversity. So we Like People Like You. We want to be the church where you will meet people like you and some who are not. Just like Jesus we want to have a very radicle welcome. All are welcome. We want to rise above the false dichotomy of Us v them. We want to, like God, be for Kingdom's justice, Kingdome healing, Kingdom restoration, Kingdom Joy. We want to be for the Kingdom of God rather than divided by our differences. That means we are invited to the space where, like God, we will be kind to everyone. Even those who are not like us. 

We are called to be a church of the Kingdom of God. What that means is that we will Trust God for everything. We long to see God's Justice here on the Earth, God's life here on the Earth and the demonstration of God's power here on the Earth just as it is in Heaven. So we trust God for everything. we long to never lose our wonder, we long to remain wide-eyed and filled with expectation looking for and longing for God to move. Holding on to hope to the last minute.

Whatever will be birthed by Trinity Vineyard will be a reflection of who God has called us to be a Church centred on Jesus. We want Jesus to be the answer to every question there is in life. A church that will stand for justice no matter the cost. A journey that will love and love again and when it is let down come back and love again. It is in our DNA to not be satisfied by only occasionally helping the poor but to continually seek relationship with the weak and the least of these. It is in our DNA to not have a blanket statement that all are welcome but like Jesus open ourselves up to relationship with people like us and some who are not like us. That we will love people in front of us more than words in a book.

The New Life in Jesus which we are invited into is a life of expectation. Living lives expecting God to break through and do extraordinary things. Today, the invitation is that we would live very bold lives that unless God backs us up we will fail. We will make very bold outrageous prayers that only God can answer. The invitation of New Life is an invitation to live lives that demand faith from us, that demand our full dependence on God. A life without expectation of God to move is a life without faith.

The church was meant to only move under the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus asked the disciples not to go anywhere until they were clothed in Power. To do anything without the power of the Holy Spirit would be insufficient. In many of the powerful moves of God, there seem to be some factors present. A people full of expectation, even if it is just two people. Then they would pray and watch and wait and repeat.

We are wired to desire happiness in life and knowingly or unknowingly we are desiring for the perfect reign of God's Kingdom. The pursuit of happiness is the journey to be like Jesus. The interesting thing though, is that happy people are at peace. Whether they are among the wealthy or the not wealthy, they could be unwell or whole, but happy people are always at peace. With themselves and others.  To be at peace with God where we receive forgiveness and we can be at peace with ourselves and because we are peace with ourselves we can have compassion and grace to move towards peace with others around you.

We all wait for our big break and promise ourselves and others that when we get there we will be great, we will be faithful. We genuinely desire to be faithful in our marriages and when we are in public important leadership positions. But the faithfulness muscle is the same in the big things as in the small, seemingly unrelated, seemingly unimportant, no-one-needs-to-know situations. So we have to exercise the muscle.

The best news, however, is that God is faithful even when we are not. he is faithful even when we are seemingly small and unimportant to others or the situations we are in seem so. God is faithful to keep his word to all creation, and that means to you too.

Life is a risk. We are never given the road map. But we have to take the first step and keep following them up with other steps as we walk in faith. We never know what lies in the balance of our choice to step out in faith.

Everything we have has been given to us as stewards. Let us not overstate the ability of the ability of the receiver (us) over the generosity of the giver (God). Some will have more than you but do not forget, some have way less than you so be grateful and faithful with what you have. Risk being alive, Risk investing everything God has given you. Your intelligence, personality, education, wealth and service to create something beautiful. Risk being fully alive.

The Kingdom of God breaks through, it comes with joy that frees people to sing and dance. A joy that transforms us. And we are invited into humility because only in humility can we surrender to God's transforming joy.