Recent Blog Posts from Pursuit NYC
Apr 13, 2021
by Josh Kim Do you know that you’re called to be a leader? You may not have an official leadership position or title. You may not be the front lead person of an organization. But you are called to lead because leadership is ultimately using your influence to impact the world around you. And whether you realize it or not, you have influence and use it every day within your family, amongst friends, at work, at school, and more. The level of influence looks different for each person but we all have influence in different capacities and in different contexts. We are all called to be leaders. However, as followers of Jesus, we are not only called to be leaders but spiritual leaders. People use influence for all different purposes and agendas. But as followers of Jesus, God gave you a mandate to lead to bring influence and advancement to His kingdom wherever you are and whatever you do. That is the main difference between leadership versus spiritual leadership. And I want to encourage you to embrace the mandate of being a spiritual leader because spiritual leadership is needed in our cultural moment. But before we get specifically into spiritual leadership, let me share further general thoughts on leadership so that we are all on the same page. LEADERSHIP IS INFLUENCE First, leadership is transforming. It’s the ability to lead others and achieve goals to ultimately transform the world around us. Banning Liebscher says, “Leadership is the instrument God uses to draw the greatness out of you and bring change to the world around you.” It’s not an instrument... read more
Oct 20, 2020
When the new year began, we never had any intentions of live-streaming or going online, but we pivoted following the Lord’s leadership as the whole world changed. The result was our first ever online conference! Our heart was to make it free and available to as many people as we could to help provoke them to go deeper in their prayer lives during this time. Thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of so many people, Pursuit Conference REDUX was able to host and minister to hundreds all over the world. We had people from our backyard of NYC to throughout the East Coast all the way to multiple continents. People tuned in from Belgium, Brazil, Guatemala, Indonesia, China, and Australia to just name a few! Praise God! Check out some of the testimonies from this year’s conference below. I think it’s been a crazy season for all of us. In times of great confusion and suffering, all people long for hope. Hope is what gets you out of bed in the morning. Hope is what causes you to stand back up when you’ve fallen. Hope gives life meaning and joy. And hope is always found where people pray. Hope is found when people fall on their knees in surrender, look up to heaven and cry out, “God I can’t! But you can!” Revivals of hope always follow revivals of prayer. In the last session of the conference, I felt hope rise within my own heart as I heard Sam preach about past revivals. I was reminded that it’s never worth it to give up the fight. I... read more
Aug 24, 2020
Pursuit NYC is a regional parachurch ministry contending for revival and nothing less. We believe that genuine revival is a sovereign move of God that is threefold. It is the awakening of the Church, the harvest of the lost, and transformation of culture and society. All of this originates and flows from the heart of God because we believe God desires revival more than we do. Revival is not for sometime down the road in the future, but for today. It is not for somewhere out there, but right here in our region. We then are passionate to partner with Him to see His will take place. Our desire then is to equip and empower believers to live a life of pursuit after God’s presence through various means such as gatherings, online content, and creativity. For too long, the greatest expression of creativity and excellence have been limited to the things of this world. We believe that the Church should be leading the way in innovation and creative expressions that inspire the world around us. We know that when revival comes, it must and will be expressed creatively from one generation to the next. As such, we have always desired to express our ministry and who we are as children of God in creative ways such as apparel. Pursuit Apparel is joyfully birthed out of this conviction. Ever since the ministry began, we have devoted resources, hard work, and fresh ideas to showcase who we are as a ministry as well as share messages of revival. With the recent global pandemic, we have entered into unprecedented times. Our nation... read more
