Journeys of adventure can change you significantly. If you create a community that avoids all risk, the people are stifled. C.S. Lewis says, “Women are face-to-face creatures, and men are side-by-side creatures.” Take some journeys. You can change the world.
Archive for October, 2009
1. The Seduction of Influence It’s tempting to do it for all the wrong reasons. In our lives, there may be a tearing away of the seductions and a refining of the right reasons. Word 1: Ego. We’ve brought the celebrity culture into our church and overlook people who are so like Jesus. We attribute [...]
The Missional Church is: The people of God, We’ve been brought up in a world where church is a what, an it, something outside of me, something I go to, something I support, something I bring friends to. But the missional movement is about who. Until we get this, we will never join God in [...]
Forgetting the mission. Our motivations can naturally be mixed. We often focus on our own agenda rather than God’s agenda. You should want to plant a great church because of who God is rather than to prove something about yourself to others. God intervenes when we make it about our minds and our power and [...]
“Right now, there are a lot of disgruntled people trying to reinvent the church. It will never work. The church has never been birthed from frustrated people trying to reinvent something that’s lost its punch. Instead, it will be created by those who are passionately in love with Jesus–obeying Him and following Him at all [...]
Every week, we have to take a look at where we are as a church and are we progressing and are we becoming more productive. I use 4 metrics to decide where Origin is and we will use this throughout our journey: Are we a praying church? Do we recognize from the outset that this is [...]
You are a living Eucharist. How can we break ourselves open and pour ourselves out, so that the people around us might experience God? The Eucharist is a sacred and holy thing. You surrender your agenda when you serve. But when you exploit the Eucharist and break it down and rank it, you destroy it. [...]
Congrats Melonie Melonie is 16 and was inducted into the National Beta Club last night! Melonie works hard, studies hard, and has sooo many gifts and talents. She wouldn’t tell you, but she can play any instrument by ear and can “go” in the singing department. She’s made us very proud! Little Abigail She turns [...]
Priscilla Shirer When God interrupts our life and intervenes and gives us a specific direction, will we go? Matt Chandler There are a lot of things going on in your churches. Some of you are in good places. Some of you are in bad places. Remind yourself what you have been caught up in. Apparently [...]
Love enemies, visit prisons, sacrifice income, help orphans & widows, witness to all, lay down your life DAILY. Then, we’ll listen. – Rick Warren We overestimate what we can do in 2 years and we underestimate what we can do in 10 years. – Bill Gates Worst economy since the Great Depression.- Time Magazine. //and [...]
