So far in 2011 I’ve been a reluctant blogger. I’ve spent more time processing in my journal with pen and paper than posting online. But I’m entering into a week with a different sort of rhythm (since I’m not preaching this Sunday and don’t have a message to prepare) and so I spent part of the day looking back through my journals as some of the notes I’ve made over the years. I stated jotting down a list of some of the ministry lessons I’ve learned from a variety of voices. Even though it comes across a bit as “bumper sticker theology,” it seems worth sharing (and posting). So here’s Part 1 of Journal Notes:
- People are more interested in what you are learning than in what you know.
- Clay experiences the greatest joy when it doesn’t attempt to be the potter…
- Its better to have a light in the tunnel than a light at the end of the tunnel…
- We serve a God who comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable…
- The questions you ask will determine the ministry you do…
- If there are no tears in the writer there will be no tears in the reader…
- Janis Joplin was right - “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose…”
- We are defined by our cure – not our disease…
- Failures aren’t fatal – they’re directional…
- If we keep doing what we’ve always done then we will get what we’ve always got…(or at least we won’t get what we want)
- The only thing I contribute to my redemption is my sin…
- God is attracted to weakness and humility…
- Inefficient structures may be necessary for effective ministry…
- Success is best measured by the stories we tell, the people we honor and the language we use…
- Abounding in God’s work can distract me from abiding in God’s love…
- Parthenogenesis never leads to progress…
- Its best to quit being clever and look people in the eyes and tell the truth…
- If you hang in longer than your friends think you should – you give God more room to work…
- We all live just one day at a time – but often we are living the wrong day…
- What we call normalcy might just be massive denial and illusion…
- A jewel needs the proper setting for light to show its brilliance…
- You come to recognize someone’s voice through familiarity…
- If you are bored with your devotional life there’s a good chance that Jesus is even more bored than you are…
- Give up certainty and be satisfied with clarity…
- Sin happens…
- If we can’t be holy we can at least be weird…
- No one is meant to be a cloud without rain…
- Jesus invites rather than dictates…
- Only God can make it rain…
- We are simul justus et peccata…
- It is the revelation of God that forms us…
- Joy is one of the most powerful connections to the nature and presence of God…
- Don’t move any faster than you can on your knees…
- It’s all good!
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