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As Crete Collective churches, we hope for a lot of changes we do not yet see. We hope to see new churches birthed. We hope to see fledgling churches revitalized. We hope to see our neighborhoods changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ and Christian works of justice and mercy. We hope to see conditions of neglect and vulnerability transformed.

But few of the changes we hope to see can be accomplished quickly in our own power. They must be accomplished by God, using the methods God appoints. That requires we be people who “hope for what we do not see” while we “wait for it with patience.”

Through patience, the Christian movement grew from 120 people huddled in an upper room in Jerusalem to become the official religion of the Roman empire. We call this “revolutionary patience”—the kind of patience that changes us as much as it changes the world. In our world of “quick results,” most of which don’t last, we desperately need to recover the virtue of patience. So, we gather this year to plead with the Spirit for “revolutionary patience.”

"Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.” (James 5:7)