People keep asking that question. As Anthem starts tomorrow I figured its a good time to try and tackle it.

I’m known for being playfully vague in a lot of circumstances (keeps a mystery and intrigue about me) but I really haven’t had a good solid answer for this question… in fact because of this I haven’t really talked a lot about Anthem at all. not even to my friends.

The issue is we never really sat down and said, “this is what we want to do.” Anthem was more our responding and walking through some doors that God opened. 

The way I see it is we all love ministry and worshiping God and growing together and seeing lives changed and impacted. God knew this about us and heard us asking him for opportunities and he opened a path for it. So our plan of attack is to be a community that cares for and loves each other and use each one of the gifts that God has given us (worshipping, teaching, discipleship and others) to glorify him. 

To lay our aspirations aside. To take our principals and passions that we have absorbed and gained over the years through different and churches and people and to become a part of what God is already doing in Vancouver. Whatever it is that he is doing.

The good news is God is way more passionate than we are and he is almighty. The Almighty. So where we fall short in our game plans and strategies he has and will not.

Anthem is just an avenue for us to have an encounter with the Lord of everything. Whatever that looks like or turns into, we’re on board with.