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Where Are Your Mile Markers?

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Over the past few months, I have really begun to identify with Abraham. Here is a guy that God told to just get up and go and he got up and went.

  • no detailed vision
  • no defined finish line

He had to move in faith knowing that God would take Him from mile marker to mile marker. As he journeyed, ever time he stopped, he would build an altar and worship. He was marking his milestones. He may not have known where the journey would take him, but he knew how far he had come.

As we move with God, very often we may not know exactly what God has before us. But, we always know what now lies behind us and how far God has brought us. Take time to put up mile markers to remind you how far you’ve come and give you strength to go even further.



Written by on February 20, 2012 and categorized under Impact, Individuality

What Are You Demonstrating?

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I am what you call a visual learner. I love a good demonstration. Know who does that well? Vacuum salesmen. When they knock on your door, they don’t come in and just tell you about their product. They demonstrate:

  • How it works
  • What it does
  • How it will revolutionize your life
  • What makes it worth the cost

As Christ followers, we have been given the task of going and making disciples. To do that effectively, it is not enough to simply communicate the truth of Jesus. We have to DEMONSTRATE Jesus:

  • How He works
  • What He does
  • How He will revolutionize your life
  • What makes Him worth the cost

If it’s been a while since you’ve seen someone in your circle come to know Jesus, maybe you should ask yourself…what are you demonstrating?



Written by on February 15, 2012 and categorized under Impact, Impression

Maybe It’s Time to Get a Divorce.

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The other day, I was watching the Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian movie with my family. It was an okay flick…a little less cheesy than the first in my opinion. There was one line that really stuck out to me. It was when Lucy finds Aslan and asks him why he did not come and help defend the people of Narnia. His reply was, simply, “Things never happen the same way twice.”

There’s  a lot of truth in that statement. It is so easy for us, as church leaders, to find success in a certain method and then cling to it desperately…even when it stops being effective. We think to ourselves, “Look at how well it worked before.” while ignoring the fact that it’s not working now.

We know what our mission is. That has never changed. But, we cannot afford to be married to a method. Methods change with culture. The moment we allow ourselves to become too endeared to a method is the moment we lose momentum.

What many of us need to do is divorce some of our old methods. We need to look them in the eye and let them know it’s just not working and we simply don’t love them anymore. It’s time to move on.

Are you willing to divorce your method if it means accomplishing your mission?



Written by on February 8, 2012 and categorized under Impact, Innovation

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