John Wesley reportedly said, "In prayer I learned that without God I cannot and without me God will not". Many things in our church or in our lives cannot happen not because God cannot do it for us, but we did not do our part. Wagner calls this "Kingdom action". After we have prayed,
we must also act in faith and obedience. The kingdom action that we do will bring about change. God has condescended Himself to use us to do His work. That means God chose not to do things for us without our cooperation. That is why, it is so important for God's people to act correctly. God did not call us to passivity. We see many of our members very passive. We come to church on Sunday (some are not even regular in Sunday worship). But we are not willing to commit ourselves to serve. Many Christians are "inactive". We do not do evangelism. We do not give faithfully. We do not use our spiritual gifts to build up the church. We are not willing to go for mission. Because we do not cooperate with God, we cannot bring about the change that is needed to see our church growing and breaking through into greater expansion in mission work.
It was only when the boy was willing to let Jesus have his 5 loaves and 2 fish, that Jesus was able to feed the 5000. What do we need to give to Jesus for Him to feed the 5000 in the city of KK? We need to see some of our young people offering their lives to be serve Him as full-time pastors and missionaries. Only when we are willing, then God will. It was when the church in Antioch was willing to send out Barnabas and Paul that we see the expansion of mission recorded for us in the Acts of the Apostles. The kingdom action brings about the great change. God is calling some of us to do our kingdom action. God is calling All Saints' Cathedral and our Diocese to do our kingdom action.