| If you don't know what your brother is going through then how can you
say you are a part of a body? How can you say you really care about the
person next to you in church when you never even ask him what he is
really going through? What shows the community you really care if you
aren't even reaching out to your neighbor? The body of Christ isn't
built on a few people getting together once a week and listening to a
serman...unsaved people can do that. The body of Christ is to be
supportive of each other...but how are you doing that when you are too
selfish to take time for that guy that you don't know that well? Or
that guy who you do know but is just there so you can say you have
another friend. It makes us feel good to have others see us as popular
or outgoing or even known. Honestly I am sure God could care less about
your social status...cause the guy sitting next to you is hurting and
screaming inside that he wishes someone would truely show that they
care...that God would send someone to be his friend reguardless of how
uncool or difficult it may be for them to give up two hours of their
time to talk or pray with him. Selfish...we are selfish. We walk
through our little lives and wonder why the church is falling
apart...personally I think it is because we could care less about
anyones life than our own...we busy ourselves too much with the "me"
picture to even see how or where the body fits or how we fit into the
body...if we were to be truely honest with each other I think we would
see more pain than we realize is there. Who do you care about? Do you
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| Recently I have been lacking vision for my life. I go to work, come home, do homework, go to bed...and do it all over again. I can say it has started to get a little depressing. I am wondering why God has me where I am right now. I know I have to hold onto Him no matter what...and I feel I have, but I still have felt empty...wondering what I am doing here...wondering why God has me where I am. Tonight I was sitting in a coffee shop and it hit me...There are people that you work with that don't know the joy of Jesus Christ...and they need Him. That is my purpose...it was so easy to be at TM and have so many interns to pour into...and then I get out and I am hit with reality. I remember when I was living in FL and I met so many people that weren't saved and thought that if I were to ever go back to TM that I would get interns off campus and wittnessing to the community more...yeah right, TM sucked me back into the vortex. So many people at TM get so sucked into what they do that they forget there is a world right in their backyard that needs Jesus...and I don't mean out preaching on your soap box in the streets...I mean people that need relationships, relationships that set an example of who Jesus is and how much He loves them. It is like we are walking around like a bunch of zombies oblivious to the people right next to us on the ground hurting. We see our lives and only our lives. We might take pitty on the elderly in a nursing home down the street, or go to the mall and get on our soap box. What about the people in the community who don't need physical or financial assistance...they look like they have their lives together but we don't really get into their lives. We sit at our coffee shop content with our lives. I want to make a difference...I want purpose for my life...and I think I have been looking to far into the future and not enough at where I am right now.
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| Fantasy football here I come!!!
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| That is right summer is two weeks away. I feel like it has already hit...for me, and others, it has. Between logistics and all the other fun stuff I have to do...it has been crazy. The good news is that I have a great team (all 4 of them at this point). If it weren't for them then things wouldn't be getting done. It is people like James Goodman, Justin Schrock, Logan Darlington, and Cody Mumau that make it worth it all. So if you see them...let them know to keep up the hard work.
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| When all seems fine it seems hard to post something. As it is said "No news is good news". The good news is that God is revealing more in my life. He has been showing me some things this past week and I feel like I am going deeper now. I realized some things this week about hitting plateaus in our lives. And as I have shared this revelation with others it is interesting the impact it has had on their lives. This past week I went to a few intern sessions and after all the worship and preaching I realized it can be really easy for an intern to be like "ah, I have heard this stuff so many times this year already" They are getting pumped with worship and session after session each week. I realized it can be so easy just to hit a plateau and not really grow or get much. In one ear and out the other. Then I realized that we all go through times like these in our lives. The thing that matters the most is what we do in those times. Do we press in for more of God and ask Him to get us off this plateau, or do we just sit there and coast along? The unhealthy thing to do would be to coast. The next thought I had was that it is in those times that things are rough or we are just coasting that really set what comes next in life. The more we press in for God, the more fruit that will come out in the end. In the past 4 months I have been in the dessert. Sure God was still doing things and I was learning some things. I have been majorly dealing with insecurity and rejection. I have had some struggles in friendships and had to step back at times. Now I feel like I am coming out of this time on the plateau and God is showing how much I really have. How blessed I really am and I see how much He wants to use me and has been using me. I know there is going to be more revelation that comes but even from this understanding of the plateau and what I have shared with others I see how my testimony is impacting their lives. I am challenging my friends to get off their plateaus and seek God, make a difference, and not be passive. God wants to love us...and He wants to be close to us. The bottom line is that He wants us to love others the way He loves us...unconditionally. But we must step out first and get past the plateau. It isn't easy...the past 4 months of my life haven't been easy. I shouldn't dwell on them but learn from them...and use them to make an impact on the lives of people who are going through those same moments in their lives right now. I don't know what else to say...and I know what I have said is a lot...but there is always more. If you are on the plateau then I challenge you to press in harder for more of God and His presence...seek growth in your life. He wants to use you to make an impact...don't be passive.
Love you guys.
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