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When You Are the Problem: The Courage to Look in the Mirror When Your Church Is in CrisisSample

When You Are the Problem: The Courage to Look in the Mirror When Your Church Is in Crisis

DAY 10 OF 10

Presence Carriers—The Leader as Heaven Transporter

How private intimacy with God transforms the public atmosphere of the church

The man who carried heaven without knowing it

Moses didn't realize his face was shining. He wasn't trying to impress anyone, wasn't "putting on a spiritual performance"—he simply carried with him the atmosphere of the place where he had spent forty days.

He had spent so much time in God's presence that he couldn't hide it anymore.

The glory wasn't something he did—it was something he had become.

It wasn't a ministry technique or leadership strategy. It was the inevitable result of someone who had inhabited divine intimacy and now couldn't help but radiate it.

People didn't have to ask him if he had met God. They saw it written on his face, felt it in the air, perceived it in their spirits.

Moses had become a transporter of divine presence.

And this is the final and most transformative truth for every leader in crisis, every weary member, every community that has lost its way:

You don't just go to places—you bring places with you.

The truth that solves all problems

Here's the final truth that frees you from all the problems we've explored in these days:

The leader who lost fire but keeps preaching it.

The church turned into personal business.

The community transformed into social club.

The vision turned into idol.

Obstinacy disguised as faithfulness.

Leadership that suffocates instead of liberates.

Control that kills miracles.

Hypocrisy that contaminates everything.

Ego that clings to power.

All these problems have a common root: the disconnection between your private life with God and your public influence.

And all have the same solution: reconnecting your intimacy with God to your presence in the spaces God has called you to influence.

When you enter your church, it's not just a pastor, a leader, a member entering. It's the spiritual atmosphere you've cultivated in the secret of your relationship with God.

You are a transporter of divine presence. The question is: what presence are you transporting?

The spiritual mathematics of influence

Jesus told the disciples in the upper room: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you" (John 14:27, NIV). Not "seek peace" or "preach about peace" - I give you peace to carry.

How do you carry something? Only if you first possessed it.

You can only carry what you've already received in the secret of your relationship with God.

This is why your private devotional life isn't an optional luxury for busy leaders or lazy members. It's preparation for transforming the atmosphere of every space you touch.

Every moment you spend in God's presence, you're "charging yourself" with that presence.

And when you enter spaces where lukewarmness or spiritual death reigns, you automatically release what you're full of.

If you're full of hidden anxiety, you'll bring tension.

If you're full of desperate control, you'll bring rigidity.

If you're full of unmortified ego, you'll bring competition.

But if you're full of authentic peace, you'll bring peace.

If you're full of divine presence, you'll bring transformation.

If you're full of Christ, you'll bring Christ wherever you go.

When Samuel changed cities

When Samuel arrived in a city, "the elders of the town trembled when they met him" (1 Samuel 16:4, NIV). Not because Samuel did anything threatening, but because he carried an atmosphere of holiness that people immediately perceived.

His presence communicated God's presence before he even opened his mouth.

Have you ever noticed how certain leaders change a meeting's atmosphere simply by entering? They don't say anything special in the first five minutes, don't do anything spectacular, but something in the spiritual air shifts.

They bring with them something they received elsewhere.

They are walking reservoirs of divine presence.

But have you also noticed the opposite? How certain people seem to suck spiritual energy from a space simply with their presence? How some leaders, though technically competent, leave an atmosphere colder than the one they found?

Because this too is transporting presence. You're always transporting something—the question is what.

The paradox that solves everything

But here's the paradox that solves all leadership problems we've explored:

When you genuinely become a carrier of divine presence, all other problems begin to resolve naturally.

Excessive control relaxes because you trust God instead of depending on your systems.

Ego shrinks because you're full of Him instead of yourself.

The church stops being your business because it becomes His kingdom manifesting through you.

People begin coming not for your programs, but for the atmosphere you bring.

Not for your elaborate preaching, but for the reality of God they perceive when you're present.

Your simple presence becomes preaching.

Your being becomes message.

Your peace becomes prophecy of possibility.

Stephen on trial: when glory can't be hidden

When Stephen was brought before the Sanhedrin, "all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel" (Acts 6:15, NIV).

In the moment of maximum pressure, what showed through wasn't his fear, but God's presence he had cultivated in secret.

He wasn't trying to impress anyone. He wasn't "playing mystic" for scenic effect.

He was simply full of something he couldn't contain.

And that something transformed a trial into preaching, an attack into worship, a condemnation into conversion.

Because when you're full of God's presence, that presence automatically spills into every situation.

You can't control it. You can't hide it. You can't turn it off.

It's simply what you've become.

The secret members don't understand

But here's the secret many church members don't understand:

You too are called to be a transporter of divine presence.

Not just leaders, not just pastors, not just the "super-spiritual." You.

Every time you enter a space—your workplace, your family, your school, your church—you're transporting an atmosphere.

The question is: what atmosphere are you transporting?

When you enter the office Monday morning, what changes in the air? Does it become heavier or lighter? More tense or more peaceful?

When you come home in the evening, what atmosphere do you bring to your family? The day's stress or the peace of someone who spent time with God?

When you enter church on Sunday, what do you contribute to the collective atmosphere? Do you bring expectation of meeting God or habit of surviving another service?

Because if you wait for others to create the spiritual atmosphere while you passively consume, you're stealing instead of contributing.

You're sucking energy instead of bringing presence.

The moment of final truth

But there comes a moment—and this is that moment—when you must confront the truth that changes everything:

Maybe the reason your church doesn't change atmosphere isn't that God doesn't want to move.

Maybe it's that no one is bringing God's atmosphere.

Maybe the reason nothing supernatural happens isn't that God stopped doing miracles.

Maybe it's that no one has spent enough time with Him to be impregnated with His presence.

Maybe the reason everything seems lukewarm and dead isn't that the devil is too strong.

Maybe it's that God's children are too empty.

Empty of the presence they could transport.

Empty of the atmosphere they could change.

Empty of the glory they could release.

Not because God doesn't offer it.

But because you don't spend enough time with Him to receive it.

The final diagnosis for everyone

Here's the final diagnosis that includes everyone—leaders and members:

When was the last time someone felt God's presence through your presence?

When was the last time you entered a space and the atmosphere improved because you were there?

When was the last time your peace calmed someone else's anxiety?

When was the last time your faith encouraged someone else's doubt?

When was the last time your presence brought hope to a desperate space?

If you can't answer these questions, then you're not transporting divine presence.

You're transporting human presence.

And human presence doesn't transform anything. It consumes everything.

Divine presence transforms everything. It costs everything.

But it's worth everything.

The transformation that begins today

This is the secret that can revolutionize your leadership, your membership, your entire existence:

Stop trying to do things for God and start letting God do things through you.

You don't have to be a perfect leader—you have to be a clean conduit.

You don't have to have all the answers—you have to have connection with the One who has them.

You don't have to know how to preach better—you have to bring Someone who preaches through your life.

Before every meeting, every service, every encounter, every important conversation, spend intentional time in God's presence.

Not to prepare what you'll say, but to receive what you'll bring.

Not to plan strategies, but to charge yourself with presence.

Then enter aware that you're transporting what you received.

And watch what happens.

The promise that changes everything

When this becomes your lifestyle—when you genuinely become a transporter of divine presence—things will happen that you can't plan:

Your church will begin changing not because you changed methods, but because you changed atmosphere.

People will begin responding not because you preach better, but because you bring something real.

Conflicts will begin resolving not because you've become more diplomatic, but because God's presence melts tensions.

Conversions will begin happening not because you have better techniques, but because Christ is tangible when you're present.

Revival will begin not with special events, but with normal people who transport extraordinary presence.

People who have spent so much time with God they can't hide it anymore.

People who radiate what they're full of.

People who transform spaces simply by being there.

And that person can be you.

Today.

The final choice that determines everything

Are you willing to return to the basics?

To rediscover intimacy with God as absolute priority?

To become first an authentic worshiper and then an effective leader?

To bring presence instead of trying to produce results?

To be filled with God instead of being full of yourself?

To transport heaven instead of dragging earth?

If your answer is yes, the transformation of your church, your family, your life can begin today.

Not when you've solved all the problems we've explored in these ten days.

But when you've solved the fundamental problem: the distance between you and God.

Reduce that distance, and you'll see the distance between your community and the revival you're dreaming of also reduce.

Because revival isn't an event that comes from outside.

It's a presence that grows from within.

A presence you can transport.

A presence you can be.

A presence that can transform everything you touch.

If you're willing to pay its price.

The price of daily intimacy with God.

The price of daily death to yourself.

The price of daily life in His presence.

But when you pay that price, you become what Moses became:

A person so full of God that you can't help but transform every space you enter.

A person so charged with divine presence that others perceive God before you even open your mouth.

A person who transports heaven to earth simply by being what God called you to be:

A presence carrier.

A heaven transporter.

A walking reflection of God's glory.

And when you become this—when everyone in your church becomes this—then you'll no longer need to ask why God doesn't move.

Because He'll be moving through you.

Always.

Everywhere.

In everything.

Because you'll have become what you were always called to be:

The body of Christ that brings Christ to the world.

Not through programs or strategies.

But through presence.

His presence.

In you.

Through you.

For everyone.

This is revival.

This is the Kingdom.

This is what you were born for.

Now go, and bring it to the world.

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About this Plan

When You Are the Problem: The Courage to Look in the Mirror When Your Church Is in Crisis

There's one question no church leader or member wants to ask when everything seems dead: "What if I'm the problem?" This book has the courage to put you in front of the most uncomfortable mirror of your spiritual life. Not to condemn you, but to free you. Ten days of brutally honest self-examination that could be the beginning of the transformation you've been waiting for. Truth hurts, but it heals.

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We would like to thank Giovanni Vitale for providing this plan. For more information, please visit: https://www.vitalegiovanni.com/