Starting Over…
So this Friday the team here at NCC is getting away for what is being called a “Day Dream” day. Basically were taking time out to dream big dreams about where God wants to take us. “God sized dreams.” A big questions that Pastor Mark has posed is… “Are you doing ministry out of memory or imagination?” That’s a tough one, isn’t it.
Being creative is hard work that takes blood, sweat, tears, energy, time, talent and resources. It’s just plain hard! So many times its just easier to put the ship on cruise control and do what you know. You feel like well it worked before so maybe it will work again. Or maybe it’s never worked. =) But you just keep doing it. So many times at work I am called on to “whip up” something creative… To design something, produce something, or create something. Creativity on demand doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, some of my most creative ideas come at 11 o’clock at night and not at 1:30 in the afternoon.
But we have to push ourselves if we want to win the right to be heard as a church. Everything in our culture today is clamoring for the attention of people. How will the Church gain the attention of the masses in order to spread the Gospel. How will we “Compel them to come in” (Lk 14:23)
So basically we are going to stop everything for one day and shut everything down. (sort of =) We just want to basically put everything on the table and say, “if we could start over tomorrow and scrap everything we have done, how would we do it?” If you could start fresh… scrap everything that you have done just because you have “always done it that way”… How would you start over?
