Kingdom Leadership Workshop | April 2025
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What does it take to create a Kingdom culture at work—one marked by peace, love, and lasting transformation? In this keynote, Jeanna Roach, Betenbough Companies CEO, shares powerful stories of personal and organizational change as she unpacks what it means to cultivate shalom in a Kingdom Culture —the flourishing of all. From defining house rules that bring order to chaos, to reinforcing Kingdom values that guide decisions and build trust, this message offers both inspiration and practical guidance for leaders who want to see God’s Kingdom expressed through their workplace.
i don’t know how I got the coveted you know 300 PM slot on day two i don’t know
what that says about me but uh get ready we’re going to get through it uh
together and if y’all don’t know you should just know uh you’re getting our greatest hits album we’ve said that
before at workshops but everything that’s happening up here you know this is like the best of uh that you’re
getting you don’t get to hear all of the challenges along the way okay we want to share the fruit uh stories with you so
we’re around you ask us anything we’ll be open but just know that that’s what we’re doing up here is sharing those
things so if you ever feel overwhelmed don’t don’t be there’s a lot of stories
and uh failures that go along with this but I want to first start our talk today
and uh just kind of with a little story about my name and then a woman who embodies culture uh my nona
I can’t eat your food today because I need to lose weight for the wedding that’s no good you lose weight there after you look a witch like a witch yes
that’s no good okay like that is beautiful you’re really a beautiful girl but I won’t yes you’re beautiful for me
you’re beautiful okay so that’s not really my nona which is Italian uh for grandmother uh we
Americanized it in our home nana is what we always called her but I’m going to
tell you if you know any Italian grandmothers this is exactly how they
are everything about this picture reminded me of my own grandmother and now my mom is actually 83 so she’s been
a nana for a while i was like a late in life kiddo and my mom is just like this
you know Italians have a really strong culture i love this because uh she’s in
the kitchen of course because if you know anything about Italians they love food and everything kind of revolves
around meal time and family they’re also very opinionated so my name is spelled
funny it’s ja na so I get Ganna and Jenna it’s Gina and that is because uh
my mom like we have I’m one of four but my three older siblings were my dad’s
kiddos and they were Joy John and Janelle so they all started with Jay but my mom was full-blooded Italian she
wanted an Italian name but she wanted me to feel like I was part of the group joy
was three letters John was four letters Janelle was five letters so she needed a J was six letters
but let me tell you my grandmother never ever once spelled my name that way she
had an opinion on that a very strong one and so every time she would send a check it was G I N A that’s how she would send
money because that was important uh Nana’s are opinionated i My sister and I
were talking recently she goes “You’re not going to believe what mom said to me.” And that always means it’s going to be something pretty strong that came out
she said “Mom asked me are you going to fix your hair or not?” She had been at work all day she had already fixed her
hair you know so this is how this goes and so why how can Italian moms and grandmothers like be so similar it’s
because culture is strong and Italian families and they burn really bright
it’s kind of like a campfire like we’re all drawn to a campfire naturally you
know and that warmth can kind of seep in and spread and that’s how culture can be it spreads out um people can sense
warmth or the absence of it too but you know for a culture it’s going to require
some things like a fire requires fuel and care and tending and that is what your culture is going to have to do but
what is culture first things first you have a culture this is not about us
there’s already a culture in your organization everybody has one and if
you if people spend a significant amount of time at work you know it makes sense that it would impact us and influence us
as team members so greatly and so that’s why culture matters and the world we’ve
talked about this a lot this whole week but the world offers one set of values
things like power uh prestige money status image my kids want to be
YouTubers what in the world is that about i mean celebrity is this new thing right in the world that people want to
be but but the kingdom offers something different it says hey we want to be we
want to have love joy peace patience kindness good goodness gentleness faith
self-control that is not things that are celebrated actually in the world but
they are in the kingdom and if you want to have the kingdom show up I believe
that your culture should look like a garden and I can’t think of a more beautiful garden I’m gonna be honest
than this one right here i don’t know if you’ve walked this yet but this is the garden that’s right back here but your
culture is like a garden it needs tending you know but in this garden
everything has a part you know every rock every tree every flower it has a
role and a part in the bigger picture of what’s happening man that is what
flourishing can look like and what’s fascinating is that’s it right
there it actually sits in complete contrast to every single thing around it
and it if you have a garden or even just your yard you know that um you don’t have to do anything for weeds to grow
for stuff to crop up that you don’t want but if you want fruit if you want flourishing you’re going to have to
cultivate the land that you have even the wildest messiest brownest dustiest
places can become fruitful with attention and care given
to those i mean that that piece of land looked just like everything around it beforehand but attention and care were
given and look at that thing it is flourishing and you know the world is
constantly and you’ve probably if you’ve worked anywhere else then you know this but the world is constantly telling you
to prioritize yourself in every decision but the kingdom aims to do what’s best for all
that is a flourishing and really this is what shalom looks like shalom is about
all you know and success tends to be just about us our profits what we’re doing can I make money i mean some of
the things that even Heath was just talking about a little bit ago but we
are wanting to have a flourishing this shalom and many of you have probably heard it as peace that’s oftentimes how
people know about shalom but shalom is it signifies so much more than just
peace this word shalom actually is more about
wholeness it’s the flourishing of everyone everything gets in right order with God with his creation with one
another that is a flourishing life for people and that is so much more than just individual success or business
success and that is what God wants in his kingdom and you know this isn’t just about the absence of something like the
absence of conflict or strife you know or challenges this is actually about
what’s present where you are in that flourishing and so this can mean safety
completeness it’s that wholeness where it speaks to the well-being of everything involved everyone
i want to first share with you just a little bit about my family this is the Roach family i always joke and say “Good
things we didn’t good thing we didn’t found the homebuilding company it’ be Roach Homes i don’t know if we’d sell
much.” And I’m like you know I must love that guy if I took on this last name you know this is our uh family the very tall
human in the back is Andrew all the rest of us are kind of the same height at this point it’s our daughter Olivia uh
Liam is the next oldest in the blue shirt and then Colin he’s our our little
baby he’s 10 and man I love these little faces our daughter right now she is on a
ret spiritual retreat with her school and it’s like a limb is missing in our home every night I’m like where is she
you know she’s just we love these people but have you ever loved someone so much and not liked them some days
and I’m glad you’re laughing because I was worried I was going to have to go to the prayer room after this or counseling if it was just Andrew and I that we just
needed some serious help but we would find that in our home we were getting frustrated often with our kids about the
same thing i just found this our boys were wrestling on the couch because at boys when they like each other they wrestle when they’re mad they wrestle
we’ve learned and they’re sitting there and the stuff that they say to each other they compete all the time it is
some of the meanest harshest stuff that we’ve ever heard and so our kids have heard all the time if you can’t be
kind be quiet and they roll their eyes and they finish that sentence but I’m
still saying it today and I’ve told this story for like five years and it’s because it really bothers Andrew and I
if they’re not kind we think that that is so important and so what we found is
this was happening frequently we were coaching them on the same things and nothing was changing and we thought what
is happening here and we realized very quickly we had actually never kind of
clarified for them what the expectations were in our home and we thought well that’s not very fair uh we’re getting
frustrated because they’re meeting expectations that are unsaid and not clear to them so okay let’s let’s stop
and let’s kind of define our house rules and that’s what we did and house rules
they are a blueprint for peace okay this is why they are so important they help
you move from chaos to clarity doesn’t that sound like the kingdom chaos into
order this brought order in our home for our children and so here’s where we
landed in this home we are kind we take responsibility we serve others we laugh
we try new things if you know anything about us if you spent any time with our
group I think you would say “Yep those are things that this group values they are things that are important to Andrew
and I if you were to define your house rules they would be different than this just like in your organization they
would be different than ours that’s why I’m not even going to tell you what ours are because like Cal said everybody tries to take that and just model it
after that but it’s not true these are things unique to Andrew and I and and just like in a home you know rules are
never meant to restrict us they actually bring freedom to people a house without
clear rules isn’t peaceful it’s chaotic and a clear culture clear house rules in
your place will bring peace and predictability for people then we know how we’re going to work together that’s
why it’s so important so now our kids know what the expectations are in our
home so like our home you have to define your house rules or your core values in
your organization and Carrie told you we’re going to talk about defining um defending and celebrating what’s core
but again like our home these are things that are unique to you and your culture they’ve grown up organically over time
okay this is not something to go make up and aspire to it’s like who are we what are the unique things about us you know
because if something frustrates you often like ours did it’s probably connected to something that you value greatly and so make sure that you do
this together as a group and talk about those things this is something that as a senior leadership team you should make
that you have the authority to decide what those are but don’t do that without the input or insight of others when we
did this together as a group there are some of us that were that are in this room now that got to be a part of that
years and years ago now I never got to make the final decision on what our core values were but I will never forget Rick
and Holly and Carrie and Ron asking us “What do we think those things were what was unique about us and getting our
input and so what happens when you do that is then we walked out when they decided what those four core values were
we ran that play as if we called it oursel and that’s just a good leadership thing to let people speak in to some of
the things but you have the authority to do that and I don’t want to sit here and harp on core values um and how to def
how to define them or what all to do in that but I will ask you to limit them
make this reality for people i’ve seen some places that have 13 core values and
you know what to live up to the five in our home on a daily basis is challenging enough add eight more does that even
seem reasonable i mean you don’t want a culture of striving well if I mean you can have one if you have 13 values you
know these need to be things that are that you can easily recall that people can explain that they can actually walk
out you know this isn’t about something that you put up on a wall for us you’re
going to see them on our walls but not many because we want to get them off the wall and into daily conversations with
our people this is what Jesus did he walked he talked and he taught and that
is what we do with our core values all of the time they are such a guide for us
because values on a wall mean nothing unless they are lived and I always use this example but integrity communication
respect excellence are all really wonderful and worthy values until I tell
you that they were the values for Enron integrity they literally manipulated financial statements
everybody lost everything within that but guess what the executives left with
billions i mean they lied about statements quarter after quarter man i
mean they literally they violated everything that they said was valuable do you think that’s a good witness and
it’s not we have to be able to model what we’re talking about it’s not enough for them to be on walls and you’re not
going to have policies you know for every single scenario that you have but your values can serve as a compass for
people they can help you point to what’s true along the way you know it’s it’s a
compass not a GPS this isn’t a hey turn left here turn right there hey and this is how you’re going to get to generous
stewardship that’s not how that goes you define them though and you help people understand what they are and how to
explain them and it becomes a true north for them and then it’s not every role we go through and go here’s the checklist
for generous stewardship if you’re a builder okay sales team this is how that looks you know people understand them
and they use it as a compass and you’re going to start to define these things and you know if you
already have some I would say hey just look at them again are they true are the is this right you know do you need to
redefine them maybe reexlain them to people but take those words that you
have and test them okay test them against current and former team members
assessing their presence in those that are thriving or flourishing that’s the word we’re going to use a lot in your
culture and those you had to prune and see see if they’re true or not as we
began to do this in 2011 I can’t believe it’s been that long though we had this
really simple yet profound epiphany we had a construction team member who just
really wasn’t able to get his job done he was struggling to bring excellence in his work and then his leader was in turn
struggling to bring accountability to him and one of our board members at the time um John was talking to him and he’s
like “Man I mean but the guy is such a cultural fit i mean he’s a these are his words he’s a faithful guy you know he
was a youth pastor.” And John said “Do we have a culture of not getting our work
done?” And you know um I I couldn’t imagine a sillier question actually
because from the day I entered this organization there was never a doubt in my mind that excellence was the standard
for every team and every person so even asking that seems so silly and simple
but it hit on something for us and it was this that culture does not equal a
Christian culture this is not a Christian culture that is not what we’re saying christian is a person you know
because when we compared those groups that I talked about on the flourishing those thriving and the pruned crew that
went out there were Christians on both lists so this can’t be true this Christian is a person this is a kingdom
culture and we don’t hire only Christians we want people who come and
live by these values that do reflect the kingdom of God i will tell you that our values reflect the kingdom but that
doesn’t mean that they’re Christians you know we want words and we suggest that you do this that you use words that are
kingdom minded principles you know they connect to Christ but aren’t overtly
Christian this is not about a hol a holy huddle this is not about a church club it’s about being warm and welcoming it’s
like that campfire we talked about it draws people to it and that’s already what Heath was talking about you know
kingdom cultures are attractive people want to join organizations like that they really do and so it’s so
important but man leaders are culture keepers in the
organization now some of you are going to want to outsource this to your HR department or you know your ministry
department you got some sort of cultural team and I’m telling you right now the leaders are the
culturekeepers they are the gatekeepers they are the ones letting people in and out of the organization and so who else
keeps the culture it’s the leaders and this is important for us to remember
it’s man and it’s such a joy but leaders have to model reinforce and correct
based on these values and then anyone unwilling to commit to the house rules
has to be removed i remember as a little girl so I said I have three siblings they are 15
14 and 12 years older than I am i am the blessing they called it a surprise or an oopsie i say the blessing and so I
remember they were teenagers you know and I’m like five years old and so some of my first memories are really
challenging times for them and my parents and I will never forget when my
brother he just refused to adhere to the house rules in our home he was about 19
or 20 years old and guess what my parents had to kick him out of the house
because he refused to adhere to the house rules now he knew what they were the expectations were clear what was
happening was though it was chaos he was bringing absolute chaos and nothing was
flourishing and they had other people to worry about and so as the leaders of that home they had to make a difficult
decision with my brother and that’s how this goes because shalom that flourishing it doesn’t happen without
pruning we already hit on that before and I’m so glad we did but you know if you want a flourishing garden then you’re going to
have to take on the role of gardener and that means doing some of the responsibilities that you don’t love
and you’re not looking forward to we are not mechanics this is not about fixing
something it’s about cultivation and so don’t be a mechanic be a gardener in
your culture and the best way for this to go is to celebrate what’s core that’s
the fun part but you know what we’re terrible at it i guarantee I don’t even
have to guess i don’t know all of you but I’m gonna tell you you probably spend more time finding things that are wrong than you do what to celebrate and
how do I know that because I is one and I love to have a good party and a good
event you know but it’s challenging right there’s so much to do and we it’s like we can wrong spot so quickly and
I’ll never forget with Rick in the uh last few months of his life we were um
we had some issues going on and he asked me to kind of be his eyes and ears in the organization and it was in regards
to our accounting team now you probably don’t have to guess but I should not be over the accounting team directly okay
this high extrovert likes has always been on that sales marketing side of things and so I’m like Rick how am I
going to know how can I bring any sort of accountability here and he said Gina just go look for what’s going
right that’s what you have to do leaders you just go look for what is going well
and celebrate that because what is celebrated is repeated always now that
goes both ways okay because if you celebrate something up here and everybody’s in here and it’s really not worth celebrating it can be a problem so
what you celebrate is important you know and it can send a message those stories send messages to people and the culture
starts to trickle out from the leaders you know to the front
line man that you know for us this can happen in big and small ways you know big ways might be an all hands or all
company meeting that you talk about it but it could just be as simple as celebrating something in a weekly team
meeting with people you know do this in big and small ways whatever that might
be just stop drop and celebrate do not miss an opportunity to do that it you
know what you are sitting there celebrating will multiply in your culture and that is exactly what you
want and so when we consistently celebrate what’s core we name it we honor it we reinforce it then it starts
to take root in the people in our culture and when things get rooted like that it starts producing something much
more than just strong performance or good behavior in people that’s when the
flourishing can actually begin and that really is the ultimate aim of a kingdom culture is the
flourishing for all it’s not just a healthy workplace or a place where it’s a place where people and communities you
know we can thrive everybody can win and that’s what the Bible calls shalom and
so okay I want to shift a little bit from internally in ourselves and in our culture to what can this look like when
it overflows to impact others and so we have to kind of work towards this shalom
this is not something uh that you can just sit around and not be actively engaged in you have to work towards this
kind of flourishing and be intentional with it um this is about the well-being
of not just our people but everyone in our circle of influence your customers our trade partners suppliers vendors
whoever touches you and your business you want a flourishing for every single
one of them and so practically let me tell you what this looks like for us when a customer issue comes up these are
the kind of things we ask ourselves if this customer was in the room what would
they hope we would do you know last year we learned um that many of our homes in
one city uh were roofed without a starter shingle and so that can cause
warranty issues there were some that had come up and that team was talking about well what do we do here and we said
‘Okay if we’re going to seek the flourishing for all for everyone not just us what does this look like and so
you ask things like okay if my 83-year-old mother lived in that home what would I hope the builder did or
maybe it’s if uh my daughter lived in that home what would I hope that the
builder did or my a newlywed couple who’s struggling financially what would I hope that the builder would do and
then we go do that and that’s exactly what Cal and his team went and did they went and identified all of these roofs
this particular trade partner had roofed and went and found any home that they believed needed to be re-roofed to the
tune of $1.5 million that is what the flourishing for
all can look like you know this happens in so many ways our cost plus pricing this is something that we’re thinking
about all the time because we’re working towards this kind of flourishing for not just our people but for everyone in our
influence in our territory and it can go that way and it can be such a beautiful
thing for people you know what about are we a trusted partner what about our partners and suppliers you know do they
believe that we have their best interest at heart if they’re not in the room and we have to ask ourselves is that true
about us are we a trusted partner this is so important you know do we honor our
commitments to them do we think about them all the time i mean right now uh even our board was meeting this week and
I’m going to tell you we are constantly thinking about the flourishing of all how will this affect our trade partners
is there anything that we can do to help them to serve them in this moment we were talking before we might have to
lower starts in one area you know and it’s a start a week but guess what we go
man that’s 20% if they do five homes a week that is 20% of their revenue their
income my goodness you know for us it’s a small percentage but not for them so
if you know if we weren’t thinking about the flourishing of all we could just keep walking in that and not be worried because we go man that’s so little for
us but that’s actually not at all what a kingdom culture wants is the flourishing for everybody
involved and shalom does not choose favorites it flows to every single
person you know when you fix a roof that no one asked you to or you generously give 0% interest loans to trade partners
to help grow their business which serves customers which serves us it’s a win for everybody that is the active current of
the kingdom of God right in the middle of your business shows up in those actions
but I think the biggest irony of this entire talk and Carrie um alluded to it is that I’m giving it number
one that I have this job it’s like a big setup i tell people all of the time
because uh the truth is the people that are up on this stage have had the most transformation that’s how we got up here
to tell stories um I entered this organization as a young girl in my mid
20s i had never heard the word ministry before had to look that up it was on the website said beatenbo ministries and I
was like I don’t know what that means that wasn’t something in my Catholic church we didn’t use that word um a lot
so I surely didn’t know what kingdom meant that came much much later but I’ll
never forget when I entered um the building just adjacent to us uh I met
someone right when I walked in and he was there to greet me and I’m talking to him and he’s like “Gina we are so glad
that you are here we’ve been waiting for you you know that creative writing sample that you sent in for your job
simulation we read it in the all company meeting we can’t wait to have you on our
team and I’m like who is this and I’m like well you know my name i’m Gina what’s your name he’s like I’m
Ron ron Beatenbow i’m like Ron Beatenbow like name on the building beatenbo sure
there’s not many of those you know Ron was one of the first people I met when I walked in here with a hug and a smile it
was just the most warm welcoming like invitation ever and this is what Ron
would always say “Love is a secret sauce.” He loved the people here so much
um he just passed in August so if I cry you’ll know why
um shouldn’t have said it spoke it um like I told you I I came a little late
in life and because my dad had three kids before my parents had tried for 10 years to have a baby and struggled and
so my dad was basically done parenting uh he was not someone that you
wanted to be around he had a short fuse man he was angry all the time i mean you
could say something and he would flip a switch like that and some of my earliest memories really are walking out of my
bedroom and he’s holding my sister by her throat in the middle of our hallway i mean you had to get anywhere in our
home you had to walk through the hallway i’ll never forget one time I was just sitting you know like leaning over my
bed and I didn’t even see him and he came in and kicked me because he had found out I had danced with a boy that
was half African-Amean in 8th grade at a dance
this was not a loving and caring and gentle father now fast forward I have no
interest in college uh in faith or anything to do with God and I tell people I don’t I think I was more just
apathetic and so that’s who’s coming that’s who Ron beatenbo is hugging on
day one when I enter this organization you know hurting broken just so lost but
I didn’t even know it you know those people are entering your business today and ours too they are hurting and broken
and it’s not just the church that’s done it okay sometimes it’s their parent it’s their most trusted people in their life
have done it and those are the people that are coming here but there he was with a hug and encouraging words from
day one and he was not only a mentor for me but because he and my mom were born the same year he was like a dad to me it
became so much more when Ron would go on vacation he would do the craziest things
he would go one time they went to Italy and they brought back for my daughter um a backpack with her name monogrammed on
it why was he thinking about me and my kids when he was gone i’ll never forget Connie when we were buying a beaten bow
home of course our third beaten bow home of course uh Conniey’s like “Hey Gina let me know when you move in i want to
unpack your kitchen.” And I’m like “Sure Connie sure.” I’m like
Connie Beimo is not going to unpack my kitchen you know you can imagine who unpacked my kitchen when we also moved
in that home our daughter was about two and a half years old and Ron and Connie were the first people to come and tour
our home they wanted to come see it they were as excited for us as we were excited for our family and you know one
of the fondest memories Ron had was our daughter giving him the tour at two and a half years old and going “Mr on here’s
my potty and and these were memories you know this this is this right here this
Kingdom Culture Talk is the culmination of all the other talks together can you see it that relationship went deep it
went deeper than a leader and a team member it was the kingdom culture was
coming alive here they did stuff like that for me all of the time i mean Rick
along with um Holly and Ron and Carrie oh my goodness y’all have story after
story our son Liam he was born on November 30th and we always do a
Christmas open house and we do free uh photos with Santa and Mrs claus and
Santa and Mrs claus were always Carrie and Holly Beatenbo and I was the
marketing manager for a long time so I oversaw that event for many many years
but Liam was born on the day of the Christmas open house so it’s the first one that I had ever missed and I
remember my family was all in town and they brought our daughter Olivia to take pictures and they all come back and we’re winding down for the day and we’re
looking at all the pictures and we’re talking and we hear like who could that be it was Santa
and Mrs claus at the door so that Liam Roach hours after birth could have his
first Santa photo like what holly has come she’s
prayed for my mom before my mom had to have surgery to have cancer removed all of these this is not a check when Heath
is saying that it’s like you can’t write a check for these things what they did is show up they were there you know it
was never about them love was central to every move that they made big or small
and I’m going to tell you there are some big ones too but I don’t want to talk to you about those we could share about those another time but it wasn’t this
like angelic witness you know it wasn’t this like ah big moment that happened it
was so many many many moments of them investing their time building
relationship with me showing me what true love could look like i remember one
time I was sitting there we were at an event and I’m praying and I’m like mad at God and I’m like why did I not get a
loving dad and immediately Ron’s face came to me that’s what this place did
and can do and you can be that for other people he showed me what a father’s love
could look like he didn’t preach to me he welcomed me and he just lived love and I’m going to tell you so has Holly
so has Rick it’s just Ron and I had a special special connection you know all it takes is one person too but people
make the culture and it love is what fuels that kingdom fire that keeps going on i mean
and you’ve heard it all day but it’s just true and that will look different how we love looks different for people
but man ask the Lord to help you because as I move from pain to healing from work
to an encounter with the Lord my life did begin to transform and you probably know that I wouldn’t get to be up here
stewarding God’s ministry where we’re at you know but my husband Andrew he grew up in the Middle East and he has always
had an aversion to religion and if you haven’t realized this is not about religion it’s about relationship with
one another and with God and so he has got to watch this transformation all
along and so I just want you to hear from him in this quick video on what that’s been like for him and then
there’s Andrew my husband my kindest person you’ll ever meet zero judgment
loves every person he meets but does not believe in God husband but he cannot ignore the way he
has been loved on cared for prayed on and prayed over and he goes to church
with me every Sunday he actually serves at our church every
Sunday he’s actually in a small group god is doing something god gave me
a vision when Olivia was a baby that they would be baptized together and I hold on to that he still doesn’t know that so don’t tell him
um but I know that God’s promises are always yes and amen and so I know that
and one day I tell you that so one day you’ll see on video him standing here maybe giving his testimony about how his
spouse was impacted by this culture and came to
Christ one month to the day Andrew came to the Lord in Europe and it was it’s
just been the biggest miracle in our lives and it’s changed everything
i grew up in a Mormon church first uh my dad was Baptist we lived
overseas i went to a Shiite mosque a Sunni mosque i went to Buddhist temples all my friends were different religions
you know how confusing that is most of the time I was talked at frequently this
is the way you’re supposed to believe whether it was Christian whether it was Buddhist or Muslim didn’t matter most of
what I witnessed most the time was more religion than it was love and I was never talked out here and that’s a big
deal i think you know now I feel like I’m the person I’m supposed to be versus
when I was then i let all this other stuff get in my head that shouldn’t have been there you know I don’t work at
Beaten Bow i I don’t work at Beatenbo that That’s what you need to
know um I haven’t worked there but as a result of it that I am changed
[Music] just never gets old I can’t ever not cry I think when I see that too um because
some of you if you were in this room for the hearing from God session this morning then you know that Andrew co-led
that with Holly beatenbo and everything has changed in our lives since
Do you want that in your culture i mean it changes everything this is generational impact and all it
was y’all was faith expressed in love you see if you’re walking out kingdom core values well then that’s what’s
happening along the way you’re pointing back to Christ the whole time i always say we were it was a big
old setup the whole time but what was fascinating is as soon as I said that talk when I walked back to my table I
was a table coach then and a lady at my table said “Gina God told me all he’s waiting on is an invitation.” And you
know what my first response was you didn’t see him at church on Sunday i mean our natural wants to get in the way
of everything even though I believed that vision with my whole heart but you
know what that’s all this is is an invitation for people this isn’t an orientation where we’re going to walk
you here and go here and this is how you lose us use this light switch and this is what we say when we say it’s just an
invitation into something bigger into this kind of shalom for people and love
is the secret sauce but you know a flourishing shalom well for oh sorry
these are our boys who have also now been baptized olivia and Andrew were baptized together now our boys have been
baptized and Andrew got to baptize one of them in our pool you know sweet thing this is generational change so this
culture although it’s impacting just me it’s now rippled out into every area of
my life it’s influencing my sisters my mom everything is changing that is the
flourishing because shalom it’s not the absence of anything it’s the presence of
some because you know what when I would always ask myself like why would these people do this why would Holly and
Carrie after four hours of sitting with hundreds of children on their lap for
Christmas open houses which is not glamorous and is exhausting show up so Liam could have his first photo why
would they do that and they always pointed to the person of Jesus every time it did not
matter and if God is love then of course love would be a hallmark of a kingdom
culture it’s central to every thing and I love this quote this is from the
Institute for Faith Work and Economics and I think it puts it so beautifully what we’re trying to accomplish here it
says “We believe when Christians live holistic lives and integrate faith and work we’re bringing it all together
using all the tools that God has given us including economics our economic engines that we have they are renewing
shalom that flourishing for everyone and it results in flourishing of both the community and individuals that can
happen we want to reweave shalom into our businesses because as you know now
God it is his ministry in the marketplace so what will you do with it and you guys are leaders you’re doers we
act we don’t just sit here and stew on things we go and do and so that is what
my charge is to you so go define your house rules help bring that kind of
peace those are a blueprint for peace and predictability for people that brings such safety and security creates
a safe place for them to share and heal things in them that they need to be
healed and then cultivate that kingdom culture and watch what God can do through a workplace overflowing with
love and shalom who are the Gina Roaches and Andrew Roaches in your organization
right now that God is showing you and just see what he can do people aren’t
projects but they’re precious to God and so he will come and do his work if you’ll invite him to do it and so I want
to just read this prayer over you let me pray this over you and then we’ll be done so this says this is in Ephesians 3
it says “My response is to get down on my knees before the father this
magnificent father who parcels out all heaven and earth i ask him to strengthen
you by his spirit not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength that
Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in and I ask him
that with both feet planted firmly on love you’ll be able to take in with all
followers of Jesus Christ the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love
reach out and experience the breath test its length plum the depths rise to the
heights and kingdom leaders live full lives full in the fullness of God amen
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