Faithwalking

An Ongoing Spiritual Formation Journey

Nick Senofsky, Business Leader

I am very excited about the creation of Faithwalking. I have been involved in a learning community with Jim Herrington in the past and the experience was priceless. It is hard to put into words the depth of personal transformation I underwent. What I can say is that as a result I have a better grasp on my inner world, a greater boldness with my outer world, a deeper relationship with my wife and kids, and increased intimacy with God. Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of this life-changing, life-giving journey.

Nick Senofsky
Business leader

Dave Gibson, Senior Pastor

God used the pivotal principles I learned in my two years under Jim Herrington’s mentoring to keep me from bailing out of a very challenging leadership setting. Beyond that, they enabled me to thrive as a change agent. Now, in my ongoing leadership challenges, I keep using the truths that were instilled in me.

  • You are the highest leverage change-point in your system.
  • One change changes everything.
  • Systems change to stay the same.
  • There is no single cause to a given effect.
  • There are no single-stroke solutions to complex problems.
  • This is not personal, it is a mental model disagreement.
  • You must build a learning community.
  • Transformational goals, not incremental change.

Dave Gibson, Senior Pastor
Cypress Bible Church

Rick Brown, Senior Pastor

“One huge mistake in leading is thinking leadership is mostly about what is happening around you. Through my Leaders Edge experience, Jim Herrington helped our group of leaders come to understand that leadership is more about what is happening in you. Along with that new mental model, I was equipped with the skills I needed–and lacked at the time–to lead effectively in an organization that was undergoing drastic changes while seeking deep change. Faithwalking during this time–and since–with Jim helped us get to the point of vitality we are now experiencing.”

Rick Brown, Senior Pastor
ChristBridge Fellowship

New wineskins…

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins…”(Luke 5:37)

How hard is sometimes for me to understand basic and practical spiritual principles; and how simple they really are when we finally receive the grace to understand. The gap between my mind and my heart is revelation, and revelation only comes from Jesus through the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes revelation is like new wine; and my mind is like an old wineskin that has been already stretched and molded for many years by the old wine of religion, and a distorted understanding of God. The new wine can’t get in my mind because it will cause it to explode; and “the wine will run out and the wineskin will be ruined…” I need a new mind in order to receive new revelation.

Revelation is very relevant. It’s not just superficial knowledge about God or His Scriptures, useful only for pastors and Bible teachers; it’s deep knowledge, experiential knowledge, healing knowledge, transforming knowledge of truth that sets us free. It’s knowledge of ourselves; of who we are, of what we want, and what can really satisfy us; it’s knowledge of our purpose in life; it’s knowledge of our real beauty, and success in life. It’s knowledge of what we are able to do, and what we can’t do; it’s knowledge of our limitations, and the unlimited power that has been given to us. Are we willing to keep measuring us according to the old wineskins? The ones that segregate us because of appearance, age, gender, ethnicity, degree, financial or social status? No, we need new wineskins.

How can we get them? We must acknowledge that we can’t. There is no human effort able to provide us with new minds; there are no works or ceremonies able to transform us; there is no teacher in this earth able to cause us to redeem our minds and make them new. Just Christ Himself can enable us to receive this undeserved gift of God through the work of the Spirit and the Word of our Lord; this is the gift of redemption of our souls; of renewal of our minds. This new minds are the new wineskins where revelation is given to stretch our lives conquering what seems unconquerable.

As we realize our deep need of new wineskins rejecting the old ones that have been conformed to the ways of this world; as we offer our bodies as living sacrifices holy and pleasing to God; as we worship God through our obedience; as we pray with no ceasing, and cry out to God from our hearts, longing with all our being for the transformation He want to cause in us… as we do all of that, the promise of God shines and grows stronger and stronger in our hearts… “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you…” (Ez 36:26)

Lord, give us new wineskins.