Jeremy Haroldson doesn't pull punches. Standing before his congregation, he cuts through spiritual fluff with a single devastating question: "If you don't have application, knowledge is worthless."
This isn't another theoretical sermon about spiritual gifts. This is a 40-minute blueprint for what happens after you discover your calling—when you stop waiting for permission and start living like the self-starting agent of change God designed you to be. From anointing desks at the State Capitol to mowing a single mom's overgrown lawn, Jeremy reveals why the most powerful ministry often happens outside church walls.
"Have you ever met anybody that's incredibly brilliant on a subject, but they've never applied it?" Jeremy's tone is urgent here—not condemning, but confrontational in the best way. He's describing the epidemic of Christians who can ace theology tests but can't identify a single person they've genuinely helped this week.
Here's the paradigm shift: "Every person in this place has a job to do... and it's up to me whether I do it." Not the pastor. Not a program. You. Jeremy compares it to business—the best employees don't wait for micromanagement. They're self-starting: "They'll find a need, fill a need, they'll move on." That's the personality God wants in His Kingdom workers.
Practical takeaway: If your spiritual gift assessment sits in a drawer gathering dust, you've missed the point entirely. The test was never the destination—it was the launching pad.
This section reveals Jeremy's sharpest theological insight, borrowed from Watchman Nee: "The tragedy in Christian work today is that so many workers have simply gone out, but they've not been sent forth."
What's the difference? Jeremy got a Holy Ghost wake-up call from Anthony (a member of his church): "Why do a work day, when you can just challenge people to find that one person in their neighborhood that needs something done, and go do it?"
Church work days create dependence on organized events. But when believers are sent forth with permission and training? That's when the church becomes a launch point—a headquarters dispatching 75 missionaries who never had to raise a monthly budget.
The shift in tone here is inspiring: Jeremy isn't asking you to attend more programs. He's giving you permission to be the church in your neighborhood, at the gas station, wherever the Holy Spirit orchestrates divine appointments.
Jeremy shares a conversation with a pastor of a "very, very successful church" who admitted: "I thought it was programs, and I almost killed the church with programs. Then I realized equipping and sending was the ticket."
This isn't anti-program rhetoric—it's anti-dependency. When programs become the goal rather than the tool, you're building an institution instead of an organic body. Jeremy's frustration is palpable: "If programs are the ticket, then you'll always lose the purpose."
What's the purpose? Organically raising leaders who glorify, unveil, and make Jesus clearly visible through uncommon depths of practical experience. Not through another bullet point in a church bulletin.
Here's where theory becomes testimony. 20 people from Impact Ministries spent 3 hours at the Wyoming State Capitol on a Saturday. With 2 Representatives and 1 Senator joining them, they had free access to the Senate, House chambers, and rotunda.
The mission? "We walked right into enemy territory and waged war." They anointed desks. Prayed by name over every Representative and Senator. Declared Kingdom authority where politics usually reigns.
Jeremy's tone shifts to triumphant: "The church doesn't need to stay in the church. The church needs to get out of the church. The church needs to go into the state building and take authority." But notice—they weren't cussing or condemning. They were honoring, praying in love over people they might deeply disagree with politically.
Why? Because Jeremy serves "a God that can change anybody. He can change any trajectory and any course." His formula: "I'm going to pray like it depends on Him, and I'm going to work like it depends on me."
Now Jeremy's tone becomes tender—practical and empathetic. He loves gas stations: "I have a captive audience two feet from me." While pumping gas, he simply asks: "Where are you from?" That conversation can go anywhere the Spirit leads.
Or imagine this scenario: A single mom's lawnmower broke last week. You show up unannounced with your mower and weed whacker. "That girl's just going to be wiped out [emotionally], right?" Then the Holy Spirit whispers: give her $100. Your response? "If God tells you to give $100, you have $100. And if not then, you will very shortly."
Jeremy and his wife bought lunch for a military family on a date night—young man with hearing aids, clearly active duty, pain visible in their posture. Later that night, Facebook message: "God sees you, even when you don't feel like you're being seen."
How spiritual is mowing a lawn? Jeremy's answer: "Incredibly." Because Kingdom advancement isn't always through the "spiritual door"—but it can always lead to the spiritual door.
Jeremy doesn't leave this theoretical. Your assignment for the week: "Turn around and go, and represent your church in this community to one person every day."
It might not be mowing lawns daily (you don't have time). But it could be:
The key? Don't overthink it. Jeremy's closing tone is both challenging and freeing: "Just slow down. Be the hands and feet of Jesus. You did it to the least of these, you did it to Me."
This lecture demolishes the excuse of "I don't know what to do with my calling." Jeremy's message is crystal clear: Stop waiting for a program, a title, or perfect circumstances. You already have permission. You already have appointments lined up by the Holy Spirit—you just need to show up.
Whether you're an evangelist with a burden for the lost, a teacher with skills the next generation desperately needs, or a pastor who sees the hurting invisible to everyone else—you are the church. Not the building. Not the Sunday service. You.
The world doesn't need more religious knowledge. It needs believers who actually apply that knowledge through daily, practical, Spirit-led action. From Capitol rotundas to overgrown lawns, from gas station conversations to bought lunches—this is how the Kingdom advances in the 21st century.
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Key Scripture Reference: Ephesians 4:1-2, 11-12
"Therefore, I beg you, as a prisoner of the Lord, to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love... And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds, and the teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ."