The campaign has yielded its first fruits, we recieved our first committments. I feel really good about where it took us. I have a feeling we aren't completely done yet though. I expect to see a lot more actually, God has blessed us yet, I know he wants to do more, but we must merely ask him. That we will.
This last weekend was crazy for me, this week and next will be even crazier, but I am OK with it, I have decided it is time for me to actually start taking a day off each week. Before I got into ministry, I wouldn't have had it any other way, but for some reason since my start in ministry, oh how long ago, I can't stop doing the things I feel God is calling me to do. It's somehow strange to me. I feel God working here, it is really cool but somewhat scary. I just feel the need to just keep going and doing, you know:
- See one more person
- Call another parent
- Come up with another connecttion point
- Encourage another ministry leader
- Plan another event and delegate the work
That's my current nutshell, that's what I do - it just cycles over and over again. It is exciting but yet I do not want to burn out doing it. Referring to Mike Cope's blog I actually am trying to be about kingdom business.
On another note I was crushed yesterday by something I can't really lay here, but it was pretty devastating. Basically someone being upset with me because they felt that I let them down and they were going to have to struggle to deal with it, when I wasn't aware I was fully committed like they insisted. An obvious communication breakdown....So saddening, I pray it doesn't cost me a friendship.
May God bless you on your journey today!
JD said...
Chris...BIG BIG BIG commitment is demanded to take a day off. It should be so simple ... but for some of us there is this feeling that somehow we are just not totally committed to Christ if we COULD do something more but do not. In the mean time the enemy teaches us that we are invincible, not needing the rest and the away time - oh he does a great job of that. It's not far from that to ... "Lord, I'll call on you when I need you ... just let me at it." I also have renewed my commitment to a day off. We will be of more use to God this way, not less. Bless you.
Roberto Allende said...
Oh, cute baby!
As you do your work in the ministry, please consider reading these books.
These books are all FREE. Simply use a search engine and search for them.
Have a wonderful life!!!
Suggested Order:
The Antichrist – Fredrick Wilhelm Nietzsche
Age Of Reason – Thomas Paine
The Incomparable Infidel – Joseph Lewis
Self–Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
[The Truth] About the Holy Bible – Robert Green Ingersoll
Reading List: Free Books on The Internet
[The Truth] About the Holy Bible – Robert Green Ingersoll
A Confession – Leo Tolstoy
A Few Reasons for Doubting - Robert Green Ingersoll
About the Holy Bible – Robert Green Ingersoll
Absurdities of the Bible – Clarence Darrow
Age Of Reason – Thomas Paine
Bible Morality – Charles Watts
Fox’s Book of Martyrs – John Foxe
Heart of the Bible – Marshall J. Gauvin
Human, All Too Human – Fredrick Nietzsche
Mayflower: On the Buddhist Voyage – C.T. Shen
Self–Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some Reasons Why – Robert Green Ingersoll
The Antichrist – Fredrick Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Improbability of God – Richard Dawkins
The Incomparable Infidel – Joseph Lewis
The Profits of Religion – Upton Sinclair
What is an Agnostic – Bertrand Russell
Why I Am Agnostic – Robert Green Ingersoll
Why I Am an Agnostic – Clarence Darrow
Why I Am Not a Christian – Bertrand Russell
Why I Quit Going to Church – Rupert Hughes
To Improve Humanity:
Taoism – Tao Te Ching
Buddhism – The Eightfold Path
Buddhism – The Dhammapada
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
Thomas Paine
JD said...
My own mind is my church.
A sad, empty statement.
Roberto Allende said...
JD:
The Age of Reason is a classic.
You’re going to have to come up with something a bit more substantial than “a sad, empty statement.”
Ed:
You’re right! Many people are frightened without god.
People invented a god precisely because they were frightened.
People were afraid of thunder or lightening or earthquakes so they contrived gods to protect them.
Military invented gods in order to hoodwink men to fight and die in their wars, promising soldiers great rewards if they died in battle.
Churches and governments, working in collusion, invented gods to embezzle what little material goods poor peasants had.
Christianity makes people weak, not strong.
In any event, I’m not sure it’s appropriate to debate the issue on this blog and I’m not interested in Christian bashing.
I simply provided her with other documents that she might want to review.
CL said...
Fortunately for me I agree with JD and Ed. Although I will not debate anyone on my blog nor I am sure will JD or Ed, there are at least 2 FACTS for sure:
1-If you read my blog you can see I am male.
2-We disagree on God's formation, personally I believe there is a much better case for a God than against one. But that requires some faith, in a world where faithlessness rules. May God bless you in your quest.
