Are You Living Your Dream?
I just finished reading an interesting blog post from Tony Morgan. In this post he talks about New Spring Church's lead pastor, Perry Noble, and a recent staff meeting. At the staff meeting, he challenged his staff with this: "If this isn't your dream job, resign today."
The comments that followed on Tony's blog were mixed. Some loved it; others were apalled. I just love the fact that Perry is so bold as to be willing to lose people on the spot, and he did. I know there are so many things that could be said and so many different angles you could go on this. But purely from a personal viewpoint, I am so blessed to be able to analyze my own life and job and say confidently that I am living my dream. Sure, there are things that I would like to continue to do and see happen, yet, what I am doing is my dream.
Saying this, I realize that there are those reading this that aren't living their dream. I challenge you with a few things.
- Consider what is your dream. If you could do anything at this very moment and call it a job, what would it be? If you can't answer this question, I challenge you to really think about it. DREAM! I give you permission!
- Are you doing what is necessary to see the dream from above fulfilled? Even if the "job" that you're working isn't your dream, is it a stepping stone to see the dream fulfilled? If you're in college, you're probably not living your dream, but the current season prepares you for the fulfillment of your dream. Even then, preparation to see the dream accomplished actually IS living the dream. It's all in the perspective.
- For some of you, maybe you need to do something as radical as Perry suggested. If you're not living your dream, resign. That's a gutsy move, particularly in an economy such as ours right now. If you can accomplish a dream easily and without risk, it isn't really a dream; it's a plan.
SOWA Starts NOW!
I am sitting here at home in my office tonight catching up on a few things, and my mind is racing! I haven't been this excited in a long time. This week starts another term of SOWA - the Living Stones School of Worship Arts. I'm particularly excited about this session because I'm going to be teaching a new course. Well, the course isn't new, but our approach is. During the last session, some of other instructors taught SOWA Band for those emerging worshipers that were ready for the next level (to play in a band setting). This session marks the first time that I will be teaching the course. Instead of having all of the various instructors there, I'll be teaching the band as a unit as if they were going to be leading worship. Actually, they will be leading worship!! After a few weeks of preparation, they will actually be leading our children in Fresh Fire Kids on the first Tuesday night of the month. (Fresh Fire Kids is our worship and intercession night for children!)
This is exciting - where can young people get this opportunity to be trained and then to actually "do the stuff" and lead others in worship. I know we're not the only place doing this, but it certainly isn't commonplace yet in the Body of Christ.
I'll give some more updates along the way . . .
Ridiculously Random Thoughts
It's Sunday night and lots of thoughts . . . .
- What about that earthquake on Friday??? Selah had a dream about an earthquake the same night that it happened. Is my kid prophetic??
- This weather is incredible. If I could move somewhere where this is as cold as it gets in the winter, I would be in HEAVEN!
- It was good to be back in Gary leading worship today at Living Stone s - Gary. That's still my favorite sound system to lead worship with - the monitor system is great. You can hear everything so clearly.
- I ordered my Ultimate Ears custom monitors last week. It should be a couple of weeks before they're made but I can't wait!!
- I started Twittering. Twittering is a very short form of blogging answering the question, "What are you doing now."
- Did I say how much I love this weather?
- I really want to see Expelled.
- Charlene's Dell computer died. Well, I'm not sure if it's completely dead but it's not looking pretty. I'm going to take it to the office tomorrow and try to at least get our MS Money data file off of the hard drive. The girl needs to get a Mac!
- Mother's Day is coming. Any good ideas for the girls and I to get Charlene? Last year we got her a nice photo book from Apple that we created. Looking for something original . . .
- Looked at the south side of the house today, and we're definitely do for a major paint job on the exterior. Anyone interested in a fun experience painting with me??
- I wonder if the violent weekend in Chicago has anything to do with the full moon? What a great place for the next great revival. John just did an amazing post about the moon.
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Friday Night Thoughts
Well, it's Friday evening. It's been a really crazy yet exciting week. There's only a week before the "official" launch of our Gary multi-site so things have been flying around the office. Here are a few thoughts.
- The new Conservative Cafe in Crown Point is really nice. I took my MacBook Pro and headed there for lunch today. The sandwich was great, atmosphere really cozy, and the service was great. AND they have WiFi! It's a nice replacement for Panera Bread that's close to the church.
- What's up with Al Gore getting a Nobel Peace Prize?
- Naps are wonderful! Charlene and I both came home from work and crashed for an hour today. I woke up with one of those nap hangovers. You know what I mean. I wondered where I was and what had just happened.
- Last night we had an incredible cell meeting. I was fired up and ready to take our region, and I hope my guys were too. I really came to the realization that we aren't to focus on being cell leaders or attending the Living Stones School of Leaders. We are to focus on winning lost people to Jesus. Being a cell leader and attending the School of Leaders is just an extension of what we are doing in life.
- This Sunday should be exciting - we're commissioning our Gary team that will be a part of the official launch a week from now! We'll be doing that at the end of second service.
- We got all of the audio & video equipment for our Gary site this week. We actually used most of it for rehearsal on Wednesday night. We'll be doing a trial run with it in the youth room this Sunday and then pack in the trailer headed for Gary!
Please keep me in your prayers this week. A lot is happening and I really need your support.
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