Peter Roselle: Possessing Your Vessel – Performance Orientation
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 29/10/2019

The leadership team at Kings of Kings Worship Center in Basking Ridge, NJ, has been teaching the material of John and Paula Sandford, founders of the Elijah House Ministries, since our founding in 1999. In this teaching on Performance Orientation we learn the difference between “human beings” and “human doings.” God does not measure our worth by how much we do for Him. We cannot earn more of his love by working harder. Unfortunately, this truth has been lost in some church cultures where Christians have been taught to compete with other to gain favor with the leaders. This is a legalistic perversion of the gospel that has caused countless damage in the lives of believers. Christians are called to serve from a motive of love, not fear. Leaders are called to lead by the example of serving. Jesus said, “the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:28) We pray this material will be a blessing to you and encourage you to read the book, “Transforming the Inner Man,” by John and Paula Sandford. It the first book in the four-part "Transformation Series" written by the Sandfords.

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Welcome to the teaching on Performance Orientation.
We pray that it would be a blessing for you and bring you great
levels of freedom.
This is a quote from John Sanford's book:
Performance orientation is a term which
refers not to the service we perform but
to false motives which impel us.
That will be a key principle here:
It's not the doing that’s the problem,
it's the motives behind the doing that matter.
“Having brought performance
orientation to death, we may do exactly
the same works, in much the same ways, but
from an entirely different intent in the heart.
We must bring performance orientation to death.
We're not saying to stop serving, or stop doing,
but to die to the wrong hidden intents in the heart
This teaching on performance orientation
has been one of the most impactful of any that we've done.
There are many reasons for this,
mostly because one way or another every
person suffers from this problem.
We all have to fight this gravitational pull of finding our
identity in what we do, instead of who we are.
Who are we? Sons and daughters of a loving father.
You might remember a man named Jack
Frost who came and ministered at our church.
Jack’s story is very telling for this
teaching a performance orientation like
Like any child, he wanted his father's
Approval, so when he was told he kept
falling short of the goal that his dad
had set he kept trying harder. 
Jack and his brother were tennis players.
When they were growing up and they were expected
to perform at a very high level, but no
matter how hard he tried his father was never satisfied.
That's not an uncommon situation.
Jack grew up in a home where his dad had
a military background was a very strong
disciplinarian. Jack took out his
anger on his father by rebelling against
that authority. He left home as a
teenager and turned to drugs and alcohol.
He was living in northern Florida on the
coast and eventually turned to making
his livelihood as a commercial fisherman.
Eventually the Lord broke
through all the pain and he became a
very impactful minister touching
thousands of lives.
His main message was the unconditional
love of Father God. A big part of Jack's
story is how damaging performance
orientation was in his life and how much
freedom he received when that root was
finally brought to the cross and crucified.
One of the vivid pictures Jack
paints is about his life as a
commercial fisherman.
His upbringing turned him into a very competitive, 
angry adult. He kept his boat at
the docks with all the other commercial fishermen.
There was this real macho culture.
You might remember the movie Perfect Storm,
it’s a very similar story where Jack Frost
plays the George Clooney character.
Many years later, as Christian he looked back and
referred to himself as Captain Ahab.
At the time though he couldn't
understand that the root system that was
feeding all his anger was the rejection
that he felt from his father for not
measuring up to his dad’s standards.
The only way Jack could feel good about
himself was to outperform other people.
That is an impossible goal, a losing
Strategy, and it destined him to failure.
There's one part of Jack's story that as
stuck out to me. Once he and his crew
were too far out to sea and were caught
in a horrible storm, much like the movie
Perfect Storm. It looked like the ship
was not going to make it back to port.