“Your God is personally involved with you that He has created a customized vision for you and for you alone. The vision is unique to your circumstances and calibrated to your abilities. Why would He bother? Because God is your partner in ministry.” –George Barna, The Power of Vision
You can probably guess from this quote that the author is Protestant. I can respect a guy like George Barna as he spends his life doing professional market research to help Christian ministers be more effective (his focus is Protestant but 90% of what he says applies to us too). I think at times we have something to learn from the Protestants, and I can say his book helped me.
In this section he has a very clear mission: God creates each of us individually with a mission. He doesn’t make individual Christians, local Churches, or other Christian groups with a cookie cutter. It would seem awfully stupid for God to recreate the same thing 5 times to compete with each other. God knows everything.
Each one has a different aspect in it. The Catholic Church has recognized this with parishes – this parish is responsible for these two neighborhoods. But then on that the Church has religious communities, lay associations, apostolates, study circles, and a slew of other means that don’t fit in the parish.
As the Legion and Regnum Christi, we fit in the last category. I think Mr. Barna speaks right to our spirituality: Christ is beside us helping directly, we have a personal relationship with him, and he is the “Senior Partner” in whatever apostolate we do. God made each of us with a special mission.
This reflection also speaks to our spirit of teamwork, both amongst ourselves and with others. In other businesses, when the other guy gains a customer, I lose one; but in the business of saving souls, when someone else helps save a soul it’s saved just the same as if I did it.
