Glen Megill’s Testimony: Man of God
Glen Megill has been involved with Influencers in Irvine for many years. He was invited to the Influencers Band of Brothers group in Irvine twelve times before finally accepting the invitation. Glen will be moving to Texas to be closer to his extended family and to start Influencers’ chapters there. He has a heart to serve men and was a driving force to develop and sustain Influencers groups in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.
Glen studied at seminary and as a minister began “life groups” at Rock Harbor Church. He introduced men to these groups by showing the movie “The Sandlot.” The clip they emphasized was about the character named “Smalls” who didn’t think he was any good at baseball. His team encouraged him and the movie chronicled Small’s journey to become a part of the team. Encouragement is the key to growing into the man that God intended us to be. When asked why we’re involved with Influencers, the response of many men is similar to dialogue from the movie “As Good As It Gets: “I’m here because you’re here. You make me want to be a better man.” We’re most like those with whom we associate. Who are your three and who are your twelve? Influencers is designed for men who desire to “choke in the dust of other men in hot pursuit of their Lord Jesus Christ.” Glen has taken his calling as an “ambassador for Christ” seriously. His passion is to sow the Word of God into the lives of other men of God.
Today we witnessed Glen’s son Dustin anointing his son DJ as a man of God. Influencers now has three generations of committed men in the Megill family. As men of God, we’re blessed to pass on two sets of DNA: that of our natural family, and also that of our Heavenly Father. According to 1 Peter 1:23, “being born again not of corruptible seed (DNA), but of incorruptible, by the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever.” This is a fitting illustration for Father’s Day. DNA is an encoded message to pass on biological information from one generation to the next. Likewise, God’s message is passed on to those who are “born again” of incorruptible seed. The principle is this: you teach what you know but you reproduce who you are. I’m no longer a slave to sin, I am a child of God. I have inherited my Heavenly Father’s DNA, the incorruptible seed, the Word of God.
The anointing of a “Man of God” affirms our identity of who we are and whose we are. It confirms that I’m a man after God’s own heart. The first question is “Do you love Christ?” This is the prerequisite for a Man of God. The second question is. “Do you find your identity in Jesus?” To get to know a man, what do I really need to know? What’s your identity and what defines you? The answer for a Man of God is, “I’m a disciple of my Lord Jesus Christ and a son of God.” The third question is, “do you want to spend the rest of your life learning to become just like Christ?” Real ministry is learning to say “Lord come help yourself to my life.”
All things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose. Whether through pain or comfort, all things are for our learning to become just like our Lord Jesus Christ. The response to the declaration, “man of God” is “absolutely.”
The phrase “Man of God” defines our relationship with God. The word “of” is a preposition. A preposition defines the relationship between the subject “man” and the object of the preposition “God.” Grammatically the phrase “Man of God” is the “genitive of possession.” Translated into common English it means God’s man. It’s not who we are but rather WHOSE we are. Our profession “Jesus is Lord” means that we are his. 1 Corinthians 3:23 summarizes this truth, “… ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.”
Man of God? ABSOLUTELY!
May God richly bless you this Father’s Day!
Your brother in Christ,
Michael