We are God's RNLI

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In this message, Sam Percival shares the prophetic picture God gave her of the church as God’s RNLI — His lifeboat crew. Building on the earlier “lighthouse” word, Sam explains that while a lighthouse warns and guides from the shore, lifeboats launch into the storm to seek and save those in danger. This is God’s call for His people: not only to shine but to go.Drawing parallels with the mission and values of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Sam highlights that the church too is a community of volunteers marked by selflessness, courage, trustworthiness, and dependability — united in one mission to rescue the lost. With courage, nothing is impossible, echoing Jesus’ words that “with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26; Luke 1:37) and Paul’s reminder that God “is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20).Sam reminds us that we are a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9) and Christ’s ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:20) — carrying authority, purpose, and the presence of God into the storms of people’s lives. Like lifeboat crews on call 24/7, the church must be ready, alert, equipped, and united as a team, each part of the body playing its role (1 Corinthians 12).Finally, the RNLI doesn’t just rescue; it brings people safely to harbour, providing care and recovery. Likewise, the church is called not only to see people saved, but to bring them into God’s kingdom, into healing, restoration, and wholeness (Isaiah 61:1–4).The word is both encouragement and challenge: God is launching us into a new season of mission, to seek and save the lost, to bring them into safe harbour, and to see lives fully restored. We are God’s lifeboat crew — His RNLI.