Stuck In An Airport
I am flying down to my brother Jon’s for several reasons…
Brittanie is turning 21 today!
Meeting with some of the ScottsHill crew as we get ready for SummerJam 10 and other projects that we might partner together with in Buffalo!
Jon and I’s baby bro… thad hooked us up with tickets at a Duke game!
so I am “killing a few birds” with …
But I am stuck in the Charlotte airport on my connecting flight to Wilmington because of some major fog… could be worse!
So i thought I would get caught up on a few thoughts i Have had recently…
Heading into year 2 for renovation seems much more daunting then heading into year 1…
Last year I didn’t know “nothin” going into this journey except that I needed to really listen and observe as much as possible… this year because we have learned a few things through watching..listening…responding that this journey of serving in a community that is on a “faultline” in multiple ways… emotionally… educationally… financially… socially… spiritually is not so much a race or even a walk but more of a crawl.
I have to fight the urge to “build” something and actually work to invest and empower… much slower process which is a bummer because I don’t have a lot of patience.
I have to fight the urge for myself/the leadership team at renovation… to not get distracted by really good things… to many irons in the fire causes the fire to diminish (don’t think that is scientifically correct but you know what I mean… maybe?) we have to continue to narrow the focus so that we actually accomplish what God has for us… His best should be our desire.
Realizing that we have such a diverse community of faith and the people who are creating it come from such diverse backgrounds… socially, educational, economic but more than all of those differences its the diversity of our spiritual backgrounds that jumps out at me.
Realizing that the majority of those coming to renovation have some type of religious/church background and unfortunately many come with hurts and pains from those previous experiences.
Realizing that people (myself included because I is a people) have a natural bent to impose our past experience both good and bad on our current realities and experiences.
Realizing that we are still in a young somewhat immature but growing process of defining what “success” looks like at renovation. Helping people who come with past definitions of what a pastor should be or do… or what the church should be or do… or what style we should have or how we should do this or that… that we have to continue to lead, love and serve those who are connecting and collecting and hopefully beginning to serve at renovation.
I am glad I am under authority not just over it… so thankful for the authority that God has placed over me… we all need guardrails to keep us from running of into the ditch… so thankful for all of those who speak truth into my life!
That’s it for now… gotta catch a plane… hopefully… still really foggy!
