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How to Bring Faith, Love, and Hope to Our Communities
Alan Platt is an author and the founder of Doxa Deo Churches. In this episode, he shared his vast experience in uniting groups and guiding people to weaving faith and work together. Listen to his wisdom in this conversation full of quotable quotes.
Many institutions and leaders are coming towards the end of just serving their own egosystem into a Kingdom ecosystem. – Alan Platt
The three dimensions of knowing God:
- Identity
- Intimacy
- Integrity
It’s all about individuals that find the rhythm of God’s grace in their lives. It starts with knowing God. It starts with the discovery of God’s opinion over your own life and your identity in Christ. Knowing God as Father, knowing His approval and His acceptance over your life.
God’s not just working in me, He’s working through me. – Alan Platt
God wants to use you to touch other people’s lives. In that context, you must grow in terms of an understanding of the compassion and the love of God for the people. Recognize calling on your life, knowing that God is purposely calling you.
Sunday’s faith must be connected to Monday’s work. – Alan Platt
The concept of ministry is much broader than just activities within a local church program. Being a faithful and a fruitful presence for the Kingdom of God in your workplace is part of ministry.
I do not have to escape to some sacred space to be able to exercise my spirituality. – Alan Platt
The topic of unworthiness was raised, and Alan proposed this: What if you function from an understanding that God’s pleasure is already upon your life?
It’s not about how much you’ve achieved, it’s about how well you receive. – Alan Platt
Alan encouraged unity movements to not just immediately engage in shared activity, but rather to find shared outcome.
Shame is not the result of having done something wrong. Shame is the feeling of wrongness. – Alan Platt
For his parting advice, Alan has this to say: Take small steps. Don’t be overwhelmed. Ask yourself, “Why is my own next step?”
What You’ll Learn
- The three dimensions that work together in this “knowing God” component of our lives
- How does one person disciple nations?
- What does it take to weave faith and work together the way they were designed to be?
- How to receive God’s approval even when you think, “I haven’t earned it yet”
- What if Jesus had a Twitter account?
- “Church done right” versus a “healthy church”
- The importance of asking “How are you?”, not as a leader, but as a person
- “shared activity” versus “shared outcome”
Resources
- City Changers: Being the Presence of Christ in Your Community by Alan Platt
- Alan Platt’s website
- City Changer website
- Doxa Deo
Bio
Alan Platt is the founder of Doxa Deo Churches, which currently serve 30,000 people across South Africa, the United Kingdom, Germany, and New Zealand. He is the leader of the City Changers Movement and lead architect of the Church United program in South Florida.
Alan and his wife, Leana, have two adult children and reside in Florida.
