Extensive training. Planning. Communicating. Paying attention. Details. Dreaming. These are the beliefs of your Search leadership team. Did you know that? Each week, we endeavor with a willing heart to take calculated risks on innovative ideas. But it means nothing, if we don't have what it takes as God followers to follow through. I guess you could say that my greatest achievement each and every week is not showing up for worship. It's not preaching. And it isn't writing out a worship service that thrives on chaos. Instead it is about managing a creative climate. And that takes spiritual rest.
My hope each week is that we are a refuge from your life. But it doesn't stop there. If we are not enabling you to dream, be inspired, pay attention and communicate the Gospel story in your own life and in the lives of others, then we have not in any shape or form managed the creative climate well.
What can you do? Come to worship. Assist in a ministry area. Make small groups a priority. Pray often and deeply. Walt Disney is quoted as saying: "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leadings us down new paths." And Jesus has been quoted to say in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 7: "Keep on keeping on at God. Keep asking--you'll get it. Keep searching--you'll find it. Keep pushing the doors--you'll get through."
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 11:04AM 
