Moving Together With God

Dufresne Ministries Podcast — Nancy Dufresne | Campmeeting 2025 | Thursday PM
Date: June 14, 2025

Overview

In this deeply practical and heartfelt message, Pastor Nancy Dufresne explores the biblical and spiritual necessity of "moving together with God"—emphasizing the power, protection, and purpose found in fellowship with God, connection within the local church, and the essential role of corporate faith. Drawing on vivid personal experiences, scripture, and church anecdotes, Nancy calls believers to reject spiritual isolation ("Lone Ranger" Christianity) and walk in oneness with Christ and each other, especially in their local church community.

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Biblical Foundation for "Togetherness"

(00:18–07:10)

• Nancy grounds her message in scriptures like Acts 17:28 ("In Him we live and move..."), 1 Corinthians 3:9 ("fellow workmen, joint promoters, laborers together with God"), and Ephesians 2:5–6 ("made us alive together with Christ...joint seating").
• Key Point: Every movement as a believer requires God’s involvement; “He never intended us to do any of this apart from him, but together with Him.”
• Vivid analogy: When believers are "seated together" with Christ, there's “no space in between you when you’re sharing a seat. There is no space, baby. No space, right?” (07:11)

2. Fellowship's Purpose and Spiritual Impartation

(07:10–15:05)

• True fellowship is for sharing life—"Moving together. Amen. Him doing the hard part and us just sticking close and getting rewarded for the hard part he accomplishes.” (10:50)
• Importance of impartation: “You can’t even reach your end without being together with someone who imparts to you.” (11:28)
  “It matters who you hook up with, because what’s moving in them will move in you—good or bad.” (11:45)
• Nancy recounts the story of angels assigned to her late husband’s healing ministry and how their impartation extended to those connected in fellowship.

3. The Church, Pastoral Oversight, and Serving in the Local Body

(15:07–24:38)

• God leads believers to their church and pastor—"You can’t just pick the church of your choice...God will lead you to the church, to the pastor, and everyone needs a shepherd." (15:07)
• "Pastors need someone to speak into their life. Traveling ministers...if you don’t have a pastor, period, you are out [of God’s will].” (15:10)
• Staff are required to serve beyond their paid positions: “Anybody serves when they’re paid. You are to serve the body like any other congregation member that comes in.” (16:24–16:27)
• "If we’re struggling with allowing our oneness with God to direct us every day, how much more will we struggle in our togetherness as a body?" (17:34)

4. The Necessity of Being "Planted" in the Local Church

(19:16–24:38)

• "None of us can fulfill what we’re to be in the body except through the local church." (20:37)
• Powerful illustration: "Those that are planted in the house of the Lord, not potted...What’s a pot? A limit. You can’t go beyond this. And if you’re not planted, the only other thing you are is potted." (21:58, 22:18)
• Being "planted" offers ongoing nourishment, stability, longevity; "That which is potted is subject to premature death." (21:56)

5. Pastoral Authority as Protection

(24:10–27:48)

• “If you don’t have a pastor, no one has oversight over you...Jesus can only have oversight over your soul through the office of a pastor.” (24:21)
• “There is such protection and help in the office of the pastor that no other office holds for you.” (26:20)
• "Don’t get in the outer fringes. Stick close together. Close, close, close together." (27:37)

6. Corporate Faith—Why We Need Each Other

(27:49–38:28)

• Miracles sometimes require more than just personal faith: “One day you’re going to need a miracle that only corporate faith can get you.” (27:49)
• Illustration—James vs. Peter (Acts 12): “No corporate prayer for James; he died. But for Peter, the church prayed corporately and he was delivered.” (29:26–31:41)
• Missionary story: Corporate faith and prayer in his home church protected him—39 people prayed, 39 angels appeared. (34:20)
• “The only part of the word that will work for us is the part we honor...what you dishonor, you are dismissed from.” (38:00)

7. The Dangers of Criticism and Disconnection

(38:29–49:23)

• “Never dishonor the place where your corporate faith is going to be drawn from...One day I’m going to need the miracle that comes through corporate faith.” (39:55, 63:55)
• Story of making a critical comment leading to immediate physical consequences, and the lesson of seeking mercy and restoring honor. (66:58–67:24)

8. Corporate Faith as Protection—and Its Double Edge

(49:23–56:29)

• Teaching from 1 Corinthians 5: At times, the corporate church must deliver a persistent sinner “to Satan for the destruction of the flesh”—a rare, but necessary, withdrawal of protection to preserve the body and the individual’s soul. (52:37–53:42)

9. Unity Over Individualism: The Call to Spiritual Maturity

(56:29–63:55)

• “God didn’t just send one person to the upper room...some things only happen together, in one accord.” (56:29)
• “The sign of someone spiritually young: It’s all about them. As we’re growing, it becomes all about the whole.” (58:57)
• Warning: “Potted plants—high maintenance. But something planted just draws like every other plant—grow and produce, grow and produce.” (59:00–59:52)

10. Sowing Into Others' Miracles and Health

(60:05–64:12)

• The law of sowing and reaping applies to corporate faith and health: “When you sow into the health of someone else, your health...it will show up in your own health...Pray one for another that you may be healed.” (61:59)
• “If we haven’t sown corporate faith, we will have nothing of it boomeranging back into our lives...” (62:34)

11. Staying In Your Place, Honoring Every Other Part

(66:45–67:34)

• "We are one...I have to know where I’m directly connected and stay directly connected...But you’re still a part in the body. So stay in your place, but honor the rest of the body..." (66:45–67:34)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

"He never intended us to do any of this apart from him, but together with Him."
—Nancy Dufresne (approx. 02:10)

"If you have to share a seat, sometimes it’s like you don’t know where one ends and the other begins. We are raised and seated so that we don’t know where one ends and the other begins."
—Nancy Dufresne (07:11)

“It matters who you hook up with, because what’s moving in them will move in you—good or bad?”
—Nancy Dufresne (11:45)

"None of us can fulfill what we’re to be in the body except through the local church."
—Nancy Dufresne (20:37)

"Those that are planted in the house of the Lord, not potted...That which is potted is subject to premature death."
—Nancy Dufresne (21:58)

"If you don’t have a pastor, no one has oversight over you...Jesus can only have oversight over your soul through the office of a pastor."
—Nancy Dufresne (24:21)

“One day you’re going to need a miracle that only corporate faith can get you.”
—Nancy Dufresne (27:49)

“The only part of the word that will work for us is the part we honor...what you dishonor, you are dismissed from.”
—Nancy Dufresne (38:00)

"The sign of someone spiritually young: it’s all about them. As we’re growing, it becomes all about the whole."
—Nancy Dufresne (58:57)

"We are one. We are one. We are one. I think that way, I move that way, I plan that way, I obey God that way."
—Nancy Dufresne (60:05)

Key Timestamps

• 00:18–07:10 — Opening and scriptural foundation for "togetherness."
• 07:11–15:05 — "Joint seating" analogy; impartation through fellowship.
• 15:07–24:38 — The necessity of being "planted," and the role of the local church and pastor.
• 24:10–27:48 — Pastoral oversight as unique spiritual protection.
• 27:49–38:28 — Corporate faith: stories, biblical examples, and practical necessity.
• 38:29–49:23 — The danger of criticism; honor as the condition for receiving.
• 49:23–56:29 — Warning regarding persistent sin and the boundaries of corporate protection.
• 56:29–63:55 — Growing into unity, not individualism; “sowing” into corporate faith.
• 63:55–end — Lessons on honor, repentance, and mutual need in the body.

Tone & Style

Nancy Dufresne speaks with warmth, humor, and unfiltered honesty—mixing passionate biblical teaching with down-to-earth illustrations and occasional Oklahoma colloquialism. Her tone is pastoral, exhortational, at times gently corrective, but always motivating towards love, unity, and spiritual maturity within the body of Christ.

Takeaway

This message is a powerful call to reject spiritual isolation and to value deeply the roles of the local church, corporate prayer, and submission to God-appointed leadership. “Together matters”—for your spiritual growth, your protection, your miracles, and advancing God’s plan.