Today is a sign in which Gaby shows she wants to walk through life with Jesus.
She'll bury her old life and she'll literally come up out of the water.
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Wow, it's great to be here.
I'm very happy with my relationship with Steve.
I've had the pleasure of meeting him a few times...
...and what I like and what your strength is Steve, is that you're a real connector.
You're very good at connecting people.
And you're a real blessing to this country.
I started out coaching people, for nothing.
If they couldn't pay they didn't have to. My need was greater than their budget.
So I started coaching people and I saw that by giving my time...
...within a year I had people who paid 100 euros an hour and so on.
By giving, work started coming in.
If you can go beyond a negative attitude: I can't or I don't want anything.
Or: This won't change in my lifetime. If you look beyond that...
...and you start searching, which is what I said from the start.
I immediately look for the diamond in everyone.
Where's the diamond? Would you come up here?
Please stand over there.
Can you tell us briefly what you do? - I'm a sales manager.
I work for Nespresso.
But I've also started my own company: 'Interior Styling Ibizo'.
Why not stay with Nespresso? - It's a great company, really nice.
I love working there.
But I feel the need to start up on my own and do something I'm good at.
Not working for a boss but for myself. - What's wrong with having a boss?
What if a boss offered you 250,000 euros a year?
He's already actually said it, eh?
He's already said it, right? Look at his face?
This guy will do anything for money.
Money's very important to you. And that's fine.
First of all, lots of people here would say that money is important.
But by making money so important you allow danger into your life:
The danger of materialism. I like nice things too: a nice TV, etc.
But there's a difference between working for money...
...and the pleasure of using your strength in the arena.
When you use your strength in the arena you step into...
...whether it's Nespresso or whatever, the money will come automatically.
I sincerely believe that somehow everyone...
...feels a kind of emptiness.
Understandably, what I say will infuriate lots of people.
But I believe there's a god-shaped hole in all of us.
Odile, did you bring your own bow?
So we all feel an inner longing for God.
Jesus, Thanks!
I believe that we all work very hard and rush around...
...to make ourselves useful, feel good, feel better...
...and I can only say that God has filled this emptiness for me.
I was about sixteen and the six of us were at the dinner table...
...when my Dad put down his knife and fork and said: We've taught you faith...
...but I'm not doing it anymore. I'll no longer pray and give thanks.
I thought: Oh no, that's too rash for me. I haven't really checked it out.
When I said this to my Dad I noticed his slight irritation.
Hey, she always has to be different.
For years, I did nothing about it.
But I was the only one who always quickly prayed before a meal.
And my dad sometimes rolled his eyes.
Talking about faith again, there actually came a moment...
...I was at home alone, so I wasn't influenced by hymns...
...incense, candles, beautiful music or anything.
I'd taken a bible from our bookcase...
...and I don't know what made me do it but I knelt down at the side of my bed...
...and I opened up the bible on my bed and I just read something.
A random fragment from the New Testament.
And then I really...
...said to God: OK, if you exist...
...here I am, heart and soul.
After baptism, Sjoerd prayed for you, right?
Can you remember what he said?
Encouragement and prosperity.
Words to that effect.
God, let me do all the good You want me to do today.
And let everything happen as You want it to happen.
Will you introduce yourself and tell us what you do?
I work for Toneelgroep Amsterdam as the leading facilities manager...
...which is a kind of technical stage manager.
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best job: a job you'd never change...
...or a 1: a job you'd leave tomorrow. Where are you?
A six. - A six? OK.
Why? Can you describe why?
The bible is written for people. It is a manual, you could say...
...on how to get the best out of your life.
The bible is the best management and communication book there is.
Based on that, we also preach to people, we advise people too...
...so the buzz that's created is positive.
I'm terrified of taking the step to look for work outside the theatre.
Because I... - You're terrified?
Well, if you don't remove the fear then you'll...
...then this won't happen as the fear makes you look through a filter...
...that's restricting you. You must change the filter into opportunities...
...with your faith or by talking to coaches.
You must address your fear. But more importantly...
God wants the best for all of us in our lives. He helps us if we want to grow.
If you're looking for other work you should be able to have coaching in the church...
The bottom line of the C3 Movement is 'your best life'.
Based on the bible, the main focus is very much: your best life.
It's about all aspects of life: your love life, finding a partner, your working life...
...your financial life, your health. And for me it's really nice and relaxing...
...and so current to focus so closely on all of these things.
Of course our work is really important.
You can't say that what we do for 40 hours a week is irrelevant for God...
...and as Hugo said: God is active and involved in all aspects of our lives...
...also in finding the right partner, but also in finding the right job...
...and in opening new doors. It's not as if there are 20 doors in life...
...and you say to God: You can go through 18 doors to get to me...
...but probably not the last two. God is everywhere.
The Holy Spirit is capable of anything.
Instead of just praying and saying: God, give me my promotion...
...or: Give me a raise so I can make ends meet.
It's better to pray: Holy Spirit, please put me in touch with the right people.
Will you give me the right church so that I can grow?
And as a result, you'll get your promotion or a raise in salary.
Where is the mistletoe?
Give it here, give it to me.
I've met lots of women, and there are so many of them nowadays...
...who are active on all fronts: they're mums, wives and employees...
...and sometimes even volunteers.
It's just so many things. It's a lot of balls to be juggling at once.
This evening's Connect group mainly consists of women who come to church...
...not all of them, but they're all women who are already hungry for God.
They're not women who've been plucked from a railway station.
That's a very different type of evangelism, which doesn't suit me at all.
So in concrete terms: How do we make the bible practical in 2012, 2013, 2014?
What do the words from those days mean now?
Can you tell us more about it? - I'm doing a business economics course.
I'm crazy about numbers, investments, money and so on.
It's weird but I've been obsessed with Wall Street since I was about thirteen.
I'm nineteen now and I want to work there if it still exists once I've graduated.
Wall Street is really something for me.
Let me say straightaway the church never has obligations.
Everyone always asks: Do you have to pay membership?
Must you pay a tenth? You don't have to do anything.
Everyone is welcome at the C3 church, and there are no obligations whatsoever.
But we've learnt a lot about the power of giving.
At the church, we've learnt a lot about giving.
Sometimes in time, attention or in material ways.
And sometimes financial. The power, or the learning curve...
...could be in letting money go of money. Even if you've worked hard for it.
What we've really noticed in recent years...
...is that those who give are never needy.
'Those who give never go without' is a saying we've taken to heart.
A friend of ours once said: If it doesn't hurt, it's not an offering.
Now and again, we stretch our finances just a bit.
Because we know that God can do miracles in this area.
We both pay ten percent of our salaries to the house of God.
Not to the church as such and it's not as if our pastor drives a great big car...
...that's not the case at all.
It's our biblical gratitude, which the bible describes so well.
Hi, nice to see you.
Funnily enough, as soon as we decided to give ten percent of our income...
...we've always had more than enough.
That's interesting, eh?
The first month I gave ten percent I was so nervous about being able to afford it...
...but then I received a rebate from my health insurance.
It was three times more than I'd expected.
That's nice, it's one of God's little jokes.
The days of weak tea and stale biscuits are over.
God has promised prosperity and we're signing up for it here.
We're going for prosperity for the Amsterdam community...
...for Holland, for Europe.
Hark at me, I'm all fired up so watch out.
We were already very content and very happy which is great, of course. Eh?
But we had a kind of awakening...
...that God may have a greater plan for us.
Maybe he doesn't, then we'll just chug along.
But if he does, we're definitely ready for it, we can't wait.
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