Every quarter or so our executive staff get together at Susan's and my home for a day of planning. We call it Blue Sky Day. Today, before our elders meeting tomorrow evening, we spent the morning talking about some philosophical topics, such as what the expansion in our Coquitlam campus should look like (we already have our preliminary drawings) and how we should train new and younger staff members. We also covered the way we will be using video in the near future to widen our ministry scope. We find the few hours of prayer and discussion to be extremely profitable. It's so easy to get caught up in the busyness of life and press out the time necessary to look objectively ahead.
Tomorrow evening we'll do the same thing with a wider circle of a hundred or so elders. We want to hear what God is saying to us from many angles and through a variety of gifts. We as leaders do not asked to be led by our elders. Rather we want to lead, but with as much wise counsel as God has given to us. God has no trouble speaking loud enough to be heard, but we must learn how to see and hear clearly. That's the process we are giving time to now, before we step into the unknown adventure of tomorrow.
1 comment:
hopefully someone adressed the 'cliqueiness' of Northside.
It really is sad it happens/has happened.
Hopefully too, with the cliqueiness, is an associated upperclassness to 'how' things look. This is sad when the church is supposed ot make all feel welcome and a part of it.
For Norhside people it is really easy to fit in if
1. you are part of a clique..each campus and service has it's own cliques
2. you live a upper class appearing life, you know knockout clothes, wonderful furniture etc. etc.
otherwise it is somewhat hard to fit in
sad sad
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