“I don’t know if other people who are interested in what we’re talking about are coming and saying, ‘Hey, I’m not fully in the Christian camp, but I am interested in this subject matter,’” he said, “or people [are] inviting their friends and family. All I know is that we’re seeing something that we believe is just a sovereign move of God.”
How Life Surge Can Benefit Pastors
Life Surge’s events can be of particular help to church leaders in that Life Surge casts a vision for people to use their work for the glory of God. “I’m a pastor at heart,” Marcell said. “I still consider myself thinking as a pastor because I want to see the body of Christ truly make impact in our season that we live in.”
“I would just say to the church leader,” said Marcell, “figure out how to truly speak to the thing that probably is the most powerful, influential thing in any family’s life, and that’s their work. They spend as much time at work as they do with their families at home or in their church.”
Marcell admitted that he used to make the mistake of thinking of non-ministry work as secular and ministry work as sacred. However, the truth is that, before sin entered the world, God gave Adam and Eve work to do and called them to cultivate the earth.
“That calling [of people working in the marketplace] is as significant as a calling that somebody has to preach the gospel in the pulpit,” said Marcell. “The same anointing [pastors] speak under every Sunday is an anointing on [congregants’ lives] that God wants to leverage their skills, talents, abilities for his glory.”
“That becomes their pulpit in the marketplace,” he said. “And when we [ministry leaders] align to that, we are now speaking to the most felt needs of our congregation.”
“I would remind all the [church leaders] that every dollar that comes in [to their churches] comes because of marketplace efforts,” Marcell said. “The church is a nonprofit organization. It doesn’t produce its own revenue.”
“You might have some big churches that have product or books or whatever. But generally speaking, almost 100% of all revenues come from somebody who’s out there in the marketplace creating resources for the glory of God,” he went on. “I think the more we align to that and understand that, and the more we empower our congregants to recognize that calling and lean into it and understand the powerful stewardship opportunity…that just increases your opportunity to be a giver.”
Life Surge has events scheduled this year in Portland, Maine; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Washington, D.C.; Albuquerque, New Mexico; San Diego; Tucson, Arizona; Las Vegas; and Houston. Go to LifeSurge.com for more information.
“I’m excited about encouraging people and reminding people that God’s called you,” said Marcell. “God wants to use your gifts. God wants to use your work platform. God wants to use your family, your marriage, your parenting to truly bring revival to our nation.”
