Never made it to the blog yesterday to post. Not that I had a crazy busy day, I just never really took the time to post. It's funny I was just telling a buddy that it's a discipline to post everyday and that I don't have a lot of disciplines in my life and this was a good start to creating them. Anyways here are some of my thoughts over the past 24 hours:
- "Are you (insert cuss word) kidding me?! Why can't I aim today! This is the worst Call of Duty
round of my life!" (That came out of my mouth over and over again yesterday, so maybe it wasn't just a round). Don't look down on me because I like my Call of Duty. You should try it before you pass judgment.
- Watched two movies yesterday, yeah I know, I have no life. But I was working on two projects while I watched them. Does that count. The Kingdom and Reign Over Me. Both good in their own way. They taught me two things though:
- I've said this before to some people that read this blog, but I want to be apart of a church that takes risks for God. Risks that will kill us without His hand (or would kill us if that's His plan) and be totally okay with it. Risks like picking a country that no Christian ever enters, because they kill and torture them. Such as Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom show some of their methods of getting what they want and I don't think I'm okay with sending people to that country. I know it's a faith thing, but my faith isn't that big yet. "God, grow my faith that big. That I trust your plans in ALL things no matter how crazy they look to us humans. I want that faith."
- Reign Over Me taught me something about friends and small groups for that matter (since it should be a group of your closes friends). Charlie (Adam Sandler) and Alan (Don Cheadle) had to fight through it. Most people in life myself included; when things get rough we bail, but you look at your closed relationship and you've gone through the crap (excuse the word, nothing else fit), the time when you would rather not know that person. Over and over again Charlie and Alan went through it, but they stuck it out. Same with small groups. I've studied this over and over again, trying to find the "thing" that makes good small groups good. Those ones that your can't break apart. The ones that everyone genuinely loves each other and would do anything. Not because they are supposed to, but because of love they have to. Does that make any sense? Probably not. You look at those great small groups and the thing that keeps them tight is they went through to junk together. The good small groups have a past together. Where something didn't go as planned and they have to work through it together, whether a death, a fight, family issues, etc.
- Still looking for a job. Got another lead, but I'll have to see if there is anything there.
- I have some books coming from Barnes and Nobel today. Totally stoked. Thanks Wendy and Steve!
- I have 23 blogs I read in my Google Reader and it grows every day.
- We've been reading Plastic Jesus
- This church plant dream God has given me is coming together. I see us (I say us like there is more then just me, people thinking about it, but no one has committed to anything) at least 2 years out to launch right and a lot of $$$ away. The biggest problem I see if getting churches and donors to be okay with the time line. I want to see certain things happen before we ever get to the point of introducing ourselves to the community and an even longer list before our Launch Service.
- I've been thing about this for awhile now, but never got around to doing it. I have a notebook on my Mac that I've been typing into about my thought and such of church planting. I was going to start a series here on my blog for everyone to read. I'll start later today or tomorrow.
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