“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
I am spending the bulk of this week in Orlando for the Exponential Church Planting conference with my pastor Jimmy Holbrook and our worship leader Justin Mann. We are having a lot of fun and I can say that we have broken many laws, but have not been arrested…YET.
I have learned many things on this trip
I have learned a lesson about why you don’t eat with your elbows on the table. Jimmy eats so often that I have developed a blister on my right elbow from lifting my drink and food to my mouth. Ouch.
I had great time hanging out with many friends last night. We went to downtown OKC to eat at Rooster’s Chicken, go o see Date Night at Harkins in Bricktown and then we ended the evening with a stop at Cuppies and Joe for cupcakes.
It was good to spend some time with our friends Justin and Amy Lester and their baby girl Cash. Rooster’s Chicken was really great. The friend pickles were on the hook. I will definitely be going back soon.
Date Night with Tina Fey and Steve Carrell was funny. It stumble a bit just after the half way point, but our group laughed hard. I really enjoy going to the movies with this group.
Next couple of movies on my schedule to see are The Losers and Iron Man 2.
One of the great hindrances to leadership growth in your church or organization will be your failure to provide growing leaders with spaces to ply their skills and talents. If you don’t create spaces for young leaders to work then they ARE going to leave you. They can’t help it. They must lead or they become frustrated. These frustrations will either lead them to seek new opportunities, undermine your leadership, or stall as a leader.
At some point in your own personal leadership evaluation you must ask yourself which leaders your have put a lid over and are you that lid? If the answer is yes then you need to carve out a greater role for that leader and get out of the way.
How are you giving growing leaders an opportunity to spread their wings? What new directions are they taking you?
This year has been a whirlwind. I have:
The year has gone by really fast but as I end the year I want to list a few things that I am thankful for.
We are having a blast here @HarrahChurch and I hope to post a picture of the new house next week. Stay tuned.
Tonight in our Children’s ministry program we began using some new curriculum from the Rethink Group called 252 Basics. The lesson that we were using tonight had to do with Faith and came from Hebrews 11:1. We are splitting the kiddos into three different group and running them through three stations in an hour.
During my second group, 4-5th graders, we were exploring some things that can not be seen but evidence points us to the fact that there is something there. I can remember seeing Billy Graham on TV talking about the wind. You can’t see the wind, but you can see evidence that the wind is there. Gravity. You can’t see gravity but you can see gravity at work. It was at this moment that I asked the kids if they could think of any others. around the time I finished the sentence one of the two girls sitting near the front and wrestling over the Teach notes leaned into her friend and let out a pretty loud fart. Everyone in the room started laughing, including the girl who dealt it. At the end of the laughter one of the kids said, “You can’t see a fart, but there is evidence that one is there.” We all started chuckling again.
Kids say and do the darnedest things. We had a great lesson and it provided a moment that I will remember for many months to come. Can not wait until this weekend to see what else they will have to say.
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