I:60 The Life of Falling Building Blocks

Two common traits are found in a man drawn to be an influencer for Christ. First, he comes to a point in his life where he has or is willing to surrender all control to Christ alone. This man has found that all he has accomplished, all he has strived for, and everything he has set out to overcome by his own determination and grit have left him feeling empty, lacking, and discontent. The harder he leans into himself, the harder the enemy pushes back. When he thinks he is doing right, it is wrong. When he finds a solution based on his own understanding, the solutions end up backfiring or crumbling to the ground like children's toy blocks stacked one too high. Every day is Russian roulette in his successes or failures. He often comes home empty, but he lets no one know. His relationships with others are okay, but not deep in their common desire, nor are they truly authentic enough to confide in. Everything in his life is at a surface level, and he is momentarily satisfied with the facade, but deep down he is aware of his emptiness and desires true purpose. This man has finally said, 'I am finished. God, I'm tired of telling you what to do. I am silent, ready and willing to do what I am told.' God then takes this man's heart and empties all that the vanity that the man has put there and fills it back up with the life changing attribute of grace with the ability to give it to others. In turn, this creates the second trait that is found in an influencer for Christ. From grace comes compassion, and compassion comes the desire to share what you have learned to be true. A man like this is unstoppable for Christ. Because of his love and boldness in Christ, wrapped in grace, others cannot help but be drawn to him so they too can become what he has become. When experiencing this efficacious call of the Spirit, they cannot help but gather with one another and worship the true purpose for their lives.
Now, with the above said, I'd like to draw attention to a commentary by Jon Gill, a preacher from the 1700s, that truly describes the culture of Influencers M6 gatherings and the Journey Study. This is not the complete commentary but rather the highlights and paraphrases.

Hebrews 10:24,25 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

WHAT GRACE IS WHEN WE FELLOWSHIP AS INFLUENCERS
Heb 10:24/25 - "And let us consider one another
Brothers should consider one another as men, and that they are merely men. Men of like passions and weaknesses; they should consider their different tempers, and make allowance for them, and their outward state and condition in the world: they should consider one another as brothers in Christ, partakers of the same grace; as that they are all loved with the same love, all conceived and brought forth in the womb of God's eternal electing grace, partakers in the same covenant, redeemed by the same blood, and have the same graces and privileges, and an equal right to glory; having one and the same Spirit, the same grace of faith, the same righteousness, the same fountain to wash in, the same fulness to partake of, the same throne of grace to go to, and the same inheritance to enjoy: they should consider one another as universal church members, the grace and gifts of the another, their different age and standing in the church, their relation to each other as brethren; they should consider them under suffering or sorrowful circumstances, under afflictions, temptations, desertions, declensions, and as attended with weaknesses and sins.

GRACE THEN PROVOKE BROTHERLY LOVE TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER
Brotherly love is to stir it up, Like poke and stoking a dying fire, so that so it may be rekindled, and give a strong and intense flame; for this is Christ's new commandment, the bond of perfection, the evidence of regeneration, that which makes the brothers' communion comfortable and delightful, and without which a profession of religion is in vain.

THE MOTIVE IN HONORING ONE ANOTHER
And to good works, not for justification before God, and in order to procure salvation; but that God may be glorified, the Gospel adorned, the mouths of gainsayers stopped, faith evidenced to the world, and gratitude to God for his benefits shown, and for the profit and advantage of fellow creatures, and fellow Christians.

WE COME TOGETHER TO HONOR GOD AS A GATHERING OF INDIVIDUALS WHO DESIRE TO MAKE GOD FIRST.
It is the duty of Christ followers to assemble together for public worship, on the account of God, who has appointed it, who approves of it, and whose glory is concerned in it; and on the account of the followers themselves, that they may be delighted, refreshed, comforted, instructed, edified, and perfected; and on account of others, that they may be convinced, converted, and brought to the knowledge and faith of Christ; and to be led by the Crist example of other brothers. And an assembling together ought not to be forsaken; for it is a forsaking God, and their own mercies, and such are like to be forsaken of God; it is the first outward visible step in giving the enemy a foot hold to use and he will use it.

INFLUENTIAL TO OTHERS AND ONE ANOTHER-WITNESS & TESTIMONIES
to prayer, to attend public worship, to regard all the duties of religion, to adhere to Christ, and a profession of him, and to consider him, and walk on in him: or "comforting one another"; by meeting privately together, and conferring about experience, and the doctrines of grace; and by observing to one another the promises of God, relating to public worship; and by putting each other in mind of the bright day of the Lord, that is coming on: