Courageous Third
VISION and STRATEGY
Vision
Unite God’s children @Work
Fully Alive! + Communities Transformed
Courage = Action in spite of fear
Third = God first, Others second, I am Third
Strategy
Part 1:
LinkedIn for Jesus Followers @Work
Personal Growth + Real Community +
Engagement with Ministries
Leverage AI with high security to create personalized growth plans and connect people to beneficial ministries and causes they can passionately engage with. A conduit for ministries to work together for Collective Impact in communities. Getting Jesus Followers in is only Part 1, God loves all!
See the Manifesto below.
C3 is structured as a non-profit.
Results
FOR YOU:
55% of your LIFE is at Work
LOVE IT!
Yes… it is what God desires for you!
FOR THE WORLD:
Initial focus on the 1 billion Jesus followers in the global marketplace, creating a community to “Reflect God’s Love @ Work”. Inclusively inviting all who respect Jesus’ teachings to join. Starting with the largest corporations in the world – transforming people, companies and communities.
Blessing People + Increasing Profits
Part 2:
Expand to all Faiths, bringing rich community and blessing to all. To love like Jesus does…
Look below.
Manifesto
God's Love for ALL!
God LOVES everyone. We do too!
For God so loved the world…
John 3:16
From the overflow of God’s love we receive,
create a river of His love blessing all people,
of all Faiths, nations, tongues and tribes.
Is it hard at times, challenging us deeply?
Of course!
Did Jesus ever call His followers to the “easy” path?
This is Part 2!
From the seed initially planted within the Jesus follower community, it will expand rippling outward. Inviting all people, of all faiths, to experience the blessings of growth, community and engagement – within their own faith system. All while learning about and from others, shrinking prejudice to help heal a hurting world. As Christ followers we can not extend blessing to some and exclude others.
Read below. Reach out! Ask questions.
Realize this will challenge most… it did me!
Jesus never said following Him was easy.
Loving like Jesus takes courage.
Questions: FAQs
Do we believe all religions equally point to God?
They are not the same.
Not all point to God.
Jesus states that He alone is the way to God.
Yet, Jesus also gives only one new command, love as He loved. How important is love to God? God says He is love. Jesus commands, not requests, us to; LOVE DEEPLY
…sacrificially, compassionately, even to death – including for those we disagree with. He did! We do not first wait to agree, then love, we love first. It takes courage to do this, to follow Jesus. We love all, including those of religious faiths we do not align with. It is easy to love those that are like you. God doesn’t call His followers to this easy wide timid path – He commands us to be courageous,
It is the only way to LIFE, to follow Him in loving all.
Why show LOVE to people of all faiths?
God loves them... Need we say more?
Joy… Seeing God’s masterpiece in everyone!
Smart… Harness most powerful force, love.
Tears fall… as hearts experience God’s love.
As Jesus followers; we believe God created all people, loving all people. So, it is our beautiful responsibility and blessing to love all. The greatest of these is love.
Heaven Opens
God blesses as we obey in love, the stories to tell! Loving and praying for Atheists, Agnostics, Baha’i, Druze, Hindus, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Scientologists, Sikhs, hundreds of Christians from every tradition, dozens of nations. It is not the wide road, it is the narrow road leading to LIFE, few find it. God does the miracles, we don’t, we LOVE.
True abundant LIFE only happens when we obey God in Love.
Is this possible, without compromise?
Yes!
Personal thoughts, Craig Carter
That was my fear. I would need to compromise my faith to love others. I was wrong.
Read the book! Just Follow
A real life journey doing this. Book covering just 40 days in the Fall of 2024. Journey with a normal person just following God. A former Corporate Finance Controller, radically loving and praying for hundreds of people and nations; in Korea, China, and the USA.
No compromise to faith – All done with no compromise to deeply held Christian faith. Praying with all, exactly how I pray privately or with other Christians. Others see authenticity, see freedom for themselves to be authentic, and feel personally God’s merciful compassionate love, as we love as God loves. Hearts are touched by God as we just love.
Examples:
- Bible: Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan – Someone from one religion went out of his way to love a stranger in need, that had a different religion. Jesus said to imitate this love! Neither changed religious beliefs.
- Personal Examples: Other Faiths – Invited to pray for a Russian Atheist Leader, Baha’i Corporate Attorney, Druze SW Engineer living in Israel, Sikh Product Manager for his marriage, finances and death of their son, Muslim and Jewish friends for their marriages. Hundreds more from dozens of nations. All of these people shared how loved they felt, often in tears, and how prayer touched them. Many had never experienced this kind of love and care before, the deep love of God!
- Personal Examples: Catholic & Protestant – The joy of me from the Protestant tradition, blessed to be asked to pray for nuns, priests, and others. Catholic nuns and priests praying for a Protestant. Worshiping together. Praying together. Reading the Bible together. Seeking together how to show the world the love of God. Read in the Bible John 17, Jesus prays for unity not uniformity! Do we agree on all things, of course not, but we can work together in love.
The Question: should we love and help others, even if they may never believe in our faith? Did everyone Jesus heal or engage with become His follower? No. God radically loved all, regardless of their next step they would choose. Loving was never a “trick” to get the “sale” – Jesus loved them because He LOVED them! He knew not all will receive His love and follow Him, He still loved them. We must do the same, if we say we follow Him. Read the book, Just Follow, this is not a theory – it is reality, lives and nations are changed as we in courage love. Join the few, the courageous, and love!
Writing this is challenging.
Realizing the pushback is usually from zealous Christians asking this question, (this was me prior to 2019):
“Is loving people of other faiths what God wants? Won’t that require I compromise my faith?”
No, there is no compromise, it is living out our faith!
Even asking this question, “who should I love?”, breaks the merciful loving heart of God. Really? Do you really want to ask God that question? Do we think God wants us to hold back loving some people? Did He? Again, love doesn’t mean agree, it means LOVE.
Loving simply means we are following and obeying our master Jesus, and see them as God does, in love.
Yet, that was me.
I used to ask this question. I didn’t love like Jesus. I was like Saul before God spoke to him and changed his name to Paul… God had to forcefully open my eyes to His love for all in 2019.
I have found, those receiving the love and prayer never question, they are busy soaking up God’s love!
Jesus had to open my eyes, humbling me, challenging me to love as He does. It is hard, crushing, painful, even awkward, to love like Jesus did – and God had to give me courage to just follow Him in love. Few love like Jesus. Likely why Christians are often branded as “not very loving“, and the world has yet to embrace Him in love. They don’t see love in us. May He open your eyes also, as He did mine, to love all deeply, to Just Follow Him. For God gave His son Jesus up to death to show His love for all people, as our example. Some will accept Him, most won’t. Yet, he continues to love them. We do the same. Love wins.
May we follow our leader.
Giving our lives as He did.
To love all.
“The only thing that matters is our faith, expressed through love.”
Galatians 5:6
“For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Galatians 5:14
Read the full context in Galatians 5! The writer, Apostle Paul, is furious with those that do not focus on God’s love first. Read it! You do not want Paul to do to you, what he says he wants to do to these men. Ouch!
Source of above is all from the Bible:
John 14:6, John 13:34, 1 John 4:8, Luke 10:29-37, Psalm 8:5, Galatians 5:6,14, 1 Corinthians 13, Matthew 7:13-14, John 15:10-13, more…
Read the book: Just Follow. It will help you understand.