Monday, May 11, 2009

Insiders and outsiders

With Twitter, Journaling and Skype its easy to forget about the blog. Just come back from speaking at a ladies conference for several hundred women, thats a lot of estrogen in one place. It was loads of fun being the odd one out. Off to another one this week in Victoria and In between pastoring a church. One of the pressures every church leader faces is the tension where Jesus says "Go" and yet we spend most of our time trying to get people to "stay". Stay happy in the church, stay committed to the cause, stay in love with God, stay involved, stay passionate. When you first plant a church you are focused on reaching people but as it gets older we focus on keeping people. We stop leading and we start managing.

Matthew 9:13 (Msg)
Go figure out what this Scripture means: 'I'm after mercy, not religion.' I'm here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders."

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