Pastor Steven Furtick

Recently a ministry leader I really respect made a passing comment about buying in to limitations.  Strange phrase…normally we think of limitation as a bad thing.  We ask God to remove all of the limitations so we can do great things for Him.  We imagine all of the remarkable achievements that would be ours…if not for our limitations.

But there are some limitations you have to embrace.
And the level of limitation you buy into
will determine the scope of your growth.

Some of the greatest ministry results we’ve experienced at Elevation have been the result of a limitation we intentionally embraced.
For instance, we’re a multi-site church that utilizes video teaching at a majority of our services.  A lot of pastors tell me that they’d like to go multi-site, leverage video teaching…the whole deal.  And who wouldn’t?  This strategy unlocks limitless potential for exponential growth.

But it also presents some pretty confining limitations:
-The length of my sermons is now dictated to me with very little flexibility-
am I willing to embrace the limitation of the clock?
-There are many illustrations and interactions that I used to employ that don’t translate on video-
am I willing to embrace these communication limitations?
-I end up preaching to smaller crowds because they’re spread out across
more campuses in more services-
will my ego allow me to endure the big crowd adrenaline rush limitation?

The growth you experience will always be regulated
by the level of limitation you’re willing to embrace.