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RICKY ALLMON IS A PROLIFIC SPEAKER, PROVOCATIVE THINKER, AND INSPIRING AUTHOR, AMONG 21st CENTURY LEARNERS & LEADERS. RICKY IS FACILITATING A "MILLENNIAL MOVEMENT" ACROSS THE CULTURAL, SOCIAL, AND SPIRITUAL DIASPORA, THROUGH CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTS AND INNOVATIVE IDEAS DESIGNED TO STIMULATE PURPOSE, PASSION, AND PRODUCTIVITY IN EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE. YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT RICKY, AS WELL AS CONNECT TO HIM, THROUGH THE FOLLOWING MEDIUMS: www.rickyallmon.org www.twitter.com/rickyallmon www.facebook.com/rickyallmon

Friday, July 29, 2011

You have "IT", or you DON'T


Proverbs 4:7 (KJV),
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

(MESSAGE)
Above all and before all, do this: Get Wisdom! Write this at the top of your list: Get Understanding!



SAGACITY IS HAVING A SEIZURE....PASSION IS PARALYZED!!!





OUR generation SEEKS TO BE HEARD, instead of SEEKING TO SAY SOMETHING WORTH HEARING....
OUR generation SEEKS TO BE SEEN, instead of SEEKING TO DO SOMETHING WORTH PAYING ATTENTION TO...

BECOME A PERSPICACIOUS PERSON!!!

The POWER OF PURPOSE is that one does not seek to merely be "VISIBLE" , but "VITAL"....

Have you considered that your "VITAL" organs, which are necessary to sustain life, are the most "INVISIBLE" parts of your body. In other words, IT'S REALLY NOT ABOUT WHO "SEES" YOU, BUT WHO "NEEDS" YOU!!!

IF YOU WERE GONE TOMORROW:
  • WHO WOULD MISS YOU?
  • WHERE WOULD YOU BE MISSED?
  • WHO HAVE YOU DEVELOPED TO FINISH WHAT YOU HAVE STARTED?
(YOUR ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ABOVE DETERMINE THE VALUE OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING "RIGHT" NOW)

Let's relieve SAGACITY'S SEIZURES by taking the time to critically think about what we say, rehabilitate PASSION'S PARALYSIS by doing something that matters to others, not just merely make us look good to ourselves!!!

POINT OF CONTACT:
  1. Identify something you can say, that will impact the life of others
  2. Identify something you must do that will make something better
  3. Where can you volunteer at least 4 hours a month to do something that you will not directly benefit from
(Share your comments here, so you can provoke someone else to "PURPOSE")

written by Ricky Allmon
©2011 Ricky Allmon
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Saturday, April 2, 2011

MANIFESTO of a MOVEMENT

MANIFESTO of a MOVEMENT
("STATE of RELIGION")

I was very tempted to "tag" this blog, "WHY EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE". But, considering I'm not dealing with EVERYTHING, but focusing, with acute singularity, on ONE THING, which is RELIGION; I figured I would make the "tag" relevant to what I believe and what I'm doing to facilitate the change that is overdue on the spiritual landscape. However, I still make the motion that, "EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE"!!! I just need someone to "second" the motion, so we can "carry" the millennial mandate to mobilize our generation for effective and eternal CHANGE.


There is a REVOLUTION against RELIGION, and a RENAISSANCE for AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIP, both HORIZONTALLY (humanity to humanity) and VERTICALLY (humanity to divinity).

The banality and mediocrity of TRADITION has “run” its course. We have been narcotized long enough by parochial protocols and superfluous systems, that have been given HOLY significance, but have unequivocally no SPIRITUAL value.

One question that I cannot escape is, “How much of what we do as CHURCH, has any significance to our SPIRITUALITY or relevance to our HUMANITY?

The phrase, “The WILL of GOD”, has now been reduce to pitiable propaganda designed to create a guilt complex in those who refuse to patronize personal agendas that masquerade as a “Kingdom Agenda”. While the legitimate mandate of the kingdom of God is abandoned and completely ignored, because it makes no room and gives no tolerance to self-aggrandizement and personal promotion.
Church culture has made excuses for churches who do not reach the “lost”, because they are too “HOLY”; As well as made excuses for churches who are effective in connecting with the “lost”, but never facilitating any transformation in their lives, because they are “SEEKER SENSITIVE”.

We have become laden with the demagoguery of denomination, which instead of adding value to all who are seekers and followers of Christ, to develop into the fullness and function that GOD predestined for their life, instead seeks to prove its “spiritual supremacy”.

There is not ONE denomination that was organized or ordained by GOD. Denominations and Organizations are man-made entities, who in their purest forms, exist to carry the commission of Christ, but who often fail miserably, because they become consumed with how much more Christ they can appear to have than others who profess Christ.

I have made a statement recently that, “INSTITUTIONS never change by themselves, but ALWAYS requires INDIVIDUALS to facilitate the change”. Well, the same is true of Church Culture; It can only be changed by those who say they are the “CHURCH”.

So, now the question is raised what are the “elements” that will cause the CHURCH to become what it is suppose to believe?

 I am not here to issue an ecclesiastical edict, but I will emphatically state my personal mandate, that I hope will provoke you to a posture of discovery and development.

MANDATE of the KINGDOM
EVANGELIZE-reach
EDIFY-touch
EDUCATE-teach
EQUIP-transfer
EMPOWER-transform

This mandate requires an unselfish abandonment to “finding” people where they are, “feeling” where they hurt, “feeding” them what they need, “facilitating” their development, and create “function”, so they can look like their destiny.

We often speak of creating process and parameters for the UNCHURCHED to get to GOD; Yet the reality is, how can the UNCHURCHED get to GOD, when the CHURCHED have not been CULTIVATED to become like GOD.

The scriptures emphatically states, in St. Luke 10:2, “Therefore saith he unto them the harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

The ISSUE has never been the “HARVEST” (unchurched), but the “LABORERS” (churched).

Before we can focus on the process and parameters to reach the UNCHURCHED, we must first create a place where the CHURCHED can authentically become the CHURCH.

“Become a MOVEMENT, Make a MOVE”

     
written by Ricky Allmon
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