- Pastor Kunle Soriyan at Recharge Conference 2021, Day 2 (Evening Session)
The idea that newness has come and there is a protocol to that newness. I made emphasis on drama, when we left the stone age, stone was not finished in the world. We still have stones till today but stones were the technology in those days. Life was brutal at that time, there were no cities or megacities but we left the stone age and a lot of people think that for us to leave the predominant era, we have to forget everything of that era, everything has to vanish. We still have a lot of stones in the world, we have just found better ways of creating fire, hunting, and interacting. At the end of the day, Ideas must shape and once ideas are not impacting those things, newness has come. It is not a prayer point but an action point because Jesus already said you don’t put new wine into old wine’s skin. We have to be clear at every time about what is old and what is new.
The impact is on the way we live, love, play, work and die. Every product in the world must impact these five areas. The moment you begin to see a decoy in the association of what you represent as those five things. For example, we didn’t lose transportation but we lost cab and Uber came. Uber didn’t defeat transportation but it defeated the method of experiencing transportation. Change is noiseless.
When a disease enters a human being, there is no alarm to announce it, it is a noiseless effect. When you look at the day a woman gets pregnant, she doesn’t feel anything, until weeks after, with noiseless effect. The day David was announced king, he didn’t wear the crown for almost seventeen years after, that is not a big deal, the day Saul was rejected as king, he had the crown for over seventeen years later. He had been rejected but God didn’t kick him out of the throne, noiseless effect. It means the appearance of the deposit of the crown on the human head does not suggest approval. Change is noiseless and when you define the relevance of your work by its prevailing success, you lock yourself in a self-initiated attack to keep you away from newness. It is your duty to update your prevailing success to create newness.
It happened to the Methodist Church, the Methodist Church of today is the legacy of John Wesley. The Orthodox in Nigeria, the White Garment Churches, do you know how those movements were? Who would have thought? Powers don’t disappear, they only stay impotent. The British Empire is still there today but they don’t have the power they used to have. The Roman Empire that controls the world just faded. When you are waiting for the vanishing of the potential reign, you are making a big mistake because the deception is that it is not going to keep you out of the equation, it is just going to keep you small in the equation.
- What are the things that will help you to know that things are going to fade?
When you look at Sodom and Gomorrah. First of all, we miss the idea that when a concept is about to fade, it is always at its loudest. The peak of MKO’s relevance was when he died. The idea is that we can map ideas, the louder ideas get, the more scalable, the more cautious they must be because usually when the event is about to end, it will come at its loudest peak. Think about Nokia, camcorder, Yahoo, e.t.c. There is a caution that we must build permanently around the loudness of our work and our prevailing success. We must accept that all reigns are designed with expiring dates and the key is to spot that expiring date and understand the newness and take a stake in it. For example, companies that camp around their methods are going to fade, the ones that camp around their mission will take a stake in the future.
Mission and Method:
Mission and method, transportation is the mission, a taxi cab is a method, a plane is a method, horse and camel were methods, you must not be loyal to a method you must be loyal to the mission and deliberately create systems that disrupt the method by yourself. Music is a mission, it is timeless, but DVD, Cassette are methods of propagating the mission.
We know the mission of the Church, air conditioners, drums are all necessary methods to executing the mission. When we camp around the methods, we become endangered. Learn to camp around the mission and not the method, leave the method open for destruction. How do we do that? The biggest way to handle that is to watch out for:
- When your idea is succeeding and loud and you begin to notice another method of achieving the same thing you achieve, it may look small but there is a parallel method that is already on the line. For example, typewriters, when they saw that computer came, they should know that the arrival of change has come, they should begin to camp around it. The moment you see another idea doing the same thing you are doing, creating more speed, access and making it easy, you need to pause and take a look at it.
I want everyone to understand that you can create systems to control that expiring date, just because change is noiseless,
I tell people in the 2020s, don’t lose your brainstorming room, but keep your eyes closer to the lips of the master, let God’s presence be the environment of your strategic thinking now because a lot of the newness coming is not in the hand of any man or system, the advantage we have is that we are a carrier of His majesty so we can work through revelations. There is academic, there is education but there is revelation. Academics is what you are thought, education is what you teach yourself and revelation is what is given to you. The custodian of the future, which is the working, talking with the Holy Spirit.
What I do in my own practice is that every ninety days I ask myself, I identify what is loudest in my work, what is succeeding the most, I ask myself is it going to be relevant in the next ninety days? It is a permanent structure of innovation.
- Can you speak about the limiting mindset we are developing. Can you speak on the mindset we are to watch out for that might be keeping us down as a people?
There are so many but I will narrow it down to drama, we give more emphasis on drama. I don’t need drama to communicate authority. Jesus said they think they will be heard by their many words, we put too much emphasis on simplicity, in other words, why the whole world is trying to downgrade from complexity to simplicity, we move from simplicity to complexity and we make them unnecessarily complex. I am not suggesting that healing is unnecessary, people will be healed forever. Jesus said all that I do you will do, greater than that will you do. We are in a time when we need to see the new demands of popular culture and to ask ourselves how we can zone into that to create more space. Apostle Paul said I have become all things to all men if perhaps I might save some. To those who are without law, I became as without law but not without the law of Christ that I might save some. The dynamism to be able to understand our strength to present it in a recognizable format that the world can celebrate is key. One limiting belief is the idea that until we see drama, there is so much drama in the Church and we are missing simplicity. I believe very strongly that some things will not survive thirty years from now and one of them is religion. Organized religion will struggle, spirituality will expand, faith will grow. Religion is a human aspect to capture God and not God. People need to get more grounded in the integrity of God’s word. People are struggling.
Fetishism, the idea that someone can be in Lagos and be calling somebody’s name and doing some Voodoo something. People hate Buhari but he is still on ground. We relate with the brain as Gods’ adversary. The Bible says those whose senses are trained to discern good and evil, our senses can design the message. Everything in the Church was made by people who don’t know God, assuming they have the right to withdraw their products from the Church, we will not go anywhere, we will beg them to give us microphones, speakers e.t.c. the idea that progress is possible without necessarily putting a limit on religion, we have a brain, a seeing eye and a hearing ear, both are from the Lord. Some years ago someone came out attacking tithes, offering, the reason why those things prosper is not of the correctness of his theology, it prospered because it alights the anxiety of the people before the preaching came because people their self are already so weak in their theological construct and they don’t understand the reason for giving. When you understand giving, ten percent is nonsense. Warren buffet gave out fifty percent, that is billions of dollars. He gave out up to eighty percent of his income to four charities: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the charities of his three children across the world and in Africa. The idea is that we have to come to a place of strength where we defeat all this smallness.
Pastor Yemi, I have not told you this before. Do you know that for seven years, the way I fed my dogs, I have two dogs, an Alsatian and a Dobermann, at that time, they were a budget for me to feed. One day, I was jugging in Gbagada and I saw the richest ritual ever, with chicken, money, they just dumped it there. I saw that ritual I said I will not pretend that this is not dog food, I took a bulletin and packed the ritual, I fed my dogs, they finished it and were grateful I started calling my friends that if they see any rituals they should call me. I was feeding my dogs with rituals for seven years I didn’t go mad. Sango was a genius of his time who had the ability to process ethanol and bring out fire from his mouth, Sango was just an intelligence that transcends the limits of it’s own generation and because he could do that people of that time create mystery with devotion, once you are able to supply any form of mystery, you are greeted with devotion. We make a big mistake when we camp with the devil in the spirit and abandon the physical manipulations. The Lord said be gentle as a dove but be wise as a serpent. Fetishism, drama, limit our faith and does not allow us to believe the ultimate and perform the ultimate. As He is so we are in this world, we belong to the highest and we can get there.
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