What could happen if you put the right person in the right place?

I've recently begun to see things in a manner that is completely foreign to the way I've ever experienced. My ability to describe this new point of view has grown with increasing intensity over the last few weeks. Something that I've recently discussed with a good friend of mine is what happens if new abilities get awaken in us due to trauma or life changing events. What kind of untapped abilities lie dormant in all of us? To further this point read up on the boy with the incredible brain (Youtube). This is all a side point what I'm getting at though. The question I want to discuss is what can happen in the spiritual and physical realm, when you put the right person in the right place at the right time.

I have an acquaintance of mine whole I'll call Alex. Alex is perhaps one of the most loving individuals I have ever met. If you asked him for a liver, he would give you his kidney too. I have seen him extremely hurt in the past by people and events, this has affected who he has become today and limited his current potential. On the contrary to that I see an amazing potential in him, that could explode if given the right circumstances. Our Church has spent 18 years trying to create a new wine skin that is counter to what the church in general has created over the last 1700 years. It has been a long hard road, but we are finally starting to see some of the fruits of that labour. I believe the new wine skin allows the abilities and passions of differing people to excel, when in any traditional church they would flounder and go extremely underutilized.

I believe that the atmosphere that has been created here is one that is open to bringing out the best in people. I can attest to that being true, as I've seen an ability to write foster and grow over the last month. I'm not saying I'm becoming the next Shakespeare or Mark Twain, but putting words to what I see mentally has becoming increasingly easier.

So what exactly am I saying here? I'm saying that I believe that if Alex was brought here, allowed a full year or more of immersing himself in what we're doing as a church and as a people that his gifts and abilities would flow out and affect more people than either you or I could count. I've seen some of his giftings and abilities shine through here and there over the years, but I don't think they have ever been fully actualized.

What is stopping him from coming here? I'm not quite sure, maybe no one has asked him to come. Maybe it's my inability to see what God could do if we just ask. At the moment I'll just meditate on the idea, and see where God leads me.

I have this vision of bringing together a small group of people (around 10 to 12) around a small upstart and placing tasks and vision amongst each person in their gifted areas. Through this medium the endless possibilities that could be birthed of that kind of situation is mind blowing. The power that would flow forth from that seed planting group, would only be limited by ourselves, and not by the power of God.

So I ask, What is stopping us other than ourselves?