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Showing newest posts with label Did I say that out loud?. Show older posts
Showing newest posts with label Did I say that out loud?. Show older posts
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
MY MAN CRUSH
Martin Smith, lead singer of Delirious
Delirious lyrics kept me afloat in seasons that were good and bad.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
INWARDLY FOCUSED OUTWARDLY BLIND
There are a few things that are not sitting well with me today.
1. People seek approval and sometimes confuse making their leaders happy as being on mission. They will pour all their energy into an event or project because it is attached to a high profile figure. That leader can transition their energy into any opportunity. The person seeking approval doesn't care what the leader says is worth their energy and will do whatever they say even if it is something that they are mindlessly engaging in. Given time there is no way that anybody could sustain that kind of blind committment and not have one single instance of doubt or question. Which leads me to the problem; people are tempted to let someone else wrestle with their destiny and direction and never give so much as one thought to the reality that God may have something else completely planned for them. What am I asking those I lead to do? Am I selling them short of what God is calling them to?
2. We baby people way too much in ministry. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. Jesus said in the beginning of his ministry, "come and follow me." At the end he would say, "Come and die." The pursuit of a Christ like life is a battlefield of dying to self, sacrifice for the King, and trials that lead to your next step. What do we do in the church? We beg and push people to places where they are not doing life to rub shoulders once a quarter with a group of people they will not have to face, love, or invest in the next day, and the day after that, and the day after that. We think this will help them to live a servant life within the three mile radius of their home if they are not already doing so and it will not. Not this generation and not for our people. Are we that afraid to change the conversation on Sunday morning? It's a pseudo "sending out" that without knowing how to be on mission everyday where they do life only succeeds in pacifiying conviction by offering a cheap and distant second to the life they could lead.
1. People seek approval and sometimes confuse making their leaders happy as being on mission. They will pour all their energy into an event or project because it is attached to a high profile figure. That leader can transition their energy into any opportunity. The person seeking approval doesn't care what the leader says is worth their energy and will do whatever they say even if it is something that they are mindlessly engaging in. Given time there is no way that anybody could sustain that kind of blind committment and not have one single instance of doubt or question. Which leads me to the problem; people are tempted to let someone else wrestle with their destiny and direction and never give so much as one thought to the reality that God may have something else completely planned for them. What am I asking those I lead to do? Am I selling them short of what God is calling them to?
2. We baby people way too much in ministry. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. Jesus said in the beginning of his ministry, "come and follow me." At the end he would say, "Come and die." The pursuit of a Christ like life is a battlefield of dying to self, sacrifice for the King, and trials that lead to your next step. What do we do in the church? We beg and push people to places where they are not doing life to rub shoulders once a quarter with a group of people they will not have to face, love, or invest in the next day, and the day after that, and the day after that. We think this will help them to live a servant life within the three mile radius of their home if they are not already doing so and it will not. Not this generation and not for our people. Are we that afraid to change the conversation on Sunday morning? It's a pseudo "sending out" that without knowing how to be on mission everyday where they do life only succeeds in pacifiying conviction by offering a cheap and distant second to the life they could lead.
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