Hey all, I just started this blog today because I have been internally wrestling with many a thoughts. Life is so complicated. Life is so much about stuff, and feelings, and I guess my basic question is this… should it be? Should it be complicated? Should it be about stuff? Should it be about feelings? If not what should it be about? What is it that really matters anyway? I started this journey into ministry eleven years ago and to be honest with you I was clueless. I just wanted to hang out with teenagers, and help them love God. I knew nothing about management and administration, nothing about doctrine and theology, all I knew was I loved God and I wanted others to love him too. Fast forward to the now. I have learned a lot. I have seen a lot. I have been married for ten years, pastor for six, a father for five and I have come to the unsettling reality that what I knew than is all that really matters anyway. To know God, and make Him known. All the other stuff along the way will do one of two things; help you accomplish your goals, or help you lose focus of it, and sometimes it’s hard to desciphere between the two.
In the movie Jerry, realizes that after years of building his dreams he has lost sight of them without even knowing. He than franticly returns to his roots of taking care of the indivual as to help them find their dreams, thus rekindling his own. What is pastoral ministry really? To build big building? To take good offerings? To shout through an expensive, state of the art PA system about things we say we beleive? Or is it to help others connect to a God that has the answers to their problems. The hard part is doing it in such a way that makes it relevant to the place where people are at.
Where do we go from here? How do we do what we know is right, and do it in a way that works? How we reach the masses, but do it one indivual at a time? We know the why, but the church can’t figure out the how.
PD
Tags: church direction, how, thoughts, why
