Sunday, March 29, 2009

How to connect (it has been a busy season)

I hope my brain still remembers how to blog =P

Lately I have been busy with seminary, wedding planning, finding a roommate, selling my car and preparing for Catalina. I canceled cable last Friday and it made me realize how much time I was actually wasting by watching t.v. It is a great distraction from life but t.v. sucks you into a twilight zone type of world. One thing I know that has been lacking is spending time with Jesus and community. It seems that you can have an "affair with work" as Reggie McNeal writes in A Work of Heart.
As staff (and as a seminary student) you keep reading these books about ministry and who you are that sooner than later you begin to realize how messed up you actually are. There are so many things I have realized about myself and ministry that sometimes I wish I lived in a childlike ignorance that just followed Jesus...Now I am more aware about myself and it does make me a stronger leader however I can get so bogged down by what I have done wrong and what the books say you should not do. Good thing we are not perfect, our ministry is not OURS and Jesus is King.

Check out the song "God of This City"
It is a good one.