Kris Miyake: Embracing Unconditional Love

Kris Miyake: Embracing Unconditional Love
Kris speaks at King of Kings Worship Center on 11/14/2021
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Loving one another.
What would happen if every single one of us,
were to just unconditionally love
everyone around us
the way Christ loves us?
And I want to tell you, there's a difference between
no conditions,
without conditions
and without standards, there's a difference.
You can love without conditions
and still have standards.
See, when we don't understand the difference,
you just think you just love everybody no matter what
and you're just whatever they want to do and you don't care.
But, I love my children unconditionally.
You know who has more standards
than anyone else in my life?
My children.
They have more standards,
and yet
my love for them is more unconditional than anyone else's.
We can still love, with standards.
Christ has a standard.
But just because we have standards,
doesn't mean we get to be ugly about it.
So when pandemic hit,
Hawaii just like everywhere else,
no one was allowed to have Sunday morning services
for about three months.
We were already on this journey
where we had gone from being God's House,
which was a normal church, to the movement.
And we were beginning a three-year plan
to remove one Sunday a month
for three years,
until we are down to one
and replacing each one,
with house church.
We started 2020 and we were ready to do it.
It was scary and terrifying let me tell you,
but we decided for us,
we were going to throw out everything else,
and the only blueprint we would have was
if the Acts church was birthed
in 21st century America,
what would it look like?
What should it look like?
What should it be like?
We knew we couldn't just
throw out Sunday morning services.
We had to gradually teach on it,
preach on it, share on it,
build our house churches.
Our house churches are not built on gatherings,
even though we do gather,
all of our house churches on Maui alone,
we have eight house churches
and they all gathered different days, they gather weekly,
some on Wednesdays, some on Tuesdays, some on Sundays,
and they have their own pastors.
And they're not graded on the number of gatherings they have,
pastors, our house church pastors are held accountable
to how much contact they have with each member
of their community.
And in our system,
every person who's a part of the movement
will be contacted in some way,
it could be a Instagram comment, could be a phone call,
could be face to face interaction, dinner, whatever,
no less than six times a month.
Not all in your face dinners or anything like that,
but group chats, group texts.
How are you doing?
Just want to check in on you.
We try to keep it as organic as possible.
Then the quarantine hit
and no one could have Sunday morning services.
Well, every other church and pastor was
emailing me and calling me, trying to get me
to get the legislation changed,
I went "this was the best thing that ever happened to us!'
I was going to take three years to do this.
I mean, don't get me get me wrong,
the reason is awful.
Don't get me wrong, the reason is awful.
But out of all the awful results for us,
God took something very bad
and used it to fast-track a three year process into three months.
Since we stopped doing Sunday mornings altogether,
we just decided we would never just not do it,
we just wouldn't pick it up after that.
A lot of people left.
Spiritual warfare started happening like crazy.
I'll be honest with you out a few moments
where I sat down with my leadership council and said,
are we sure we're doing the right thing?
And God said, "no Kris,
don't get distracted by the fight,
you just keep doing the work."
So we did, we let important leaders leave.
We didn't get mad,
we didn't talk trash about them,
we say, cool,
we know who we're called to be,
and if you don't feel called to be that's okay,
that's okay.
So we started doing zoom house church,
then we did smaller house church clusters,
we had house churches where
if you couldn't have than 10 people in a house at one time,
then some of our bigger house churches
would have many gatherings,
because they're just gatherings, right?
And we wanted to make sure that everyone was taken care of.
I started three businesses,
I own three businesses now.
Many of our leaders now started their own businesses,
taking ourselves off of the church.
And then we got rid of
all of the other stuff, we just started renting out
this warehouse space once a month,