Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Life is messy...life is beautiful

We're hammering out our core values at this stage of the game. What matters? That's the big question. And we had some lively discussion on this topic during our last time together. And a lot of good, strong opinions.

The problem is that there are lots of good answers to that question..."What matters?" Love matters. Integrity matters. Community matters. What I'm seeing, though, is that you can boil down all these things that matter to these:

  • God matters-We are made to know Him, and we are missing unless we do.
  • People matter-Life is beautiful, and we are complete when we celebrate that beauty.
  • Giving ourselves away matters-We don't truly know God if we are not sharing the life-altering essence of who He is. We can't say we love people if we're not giving
    of ourselves into the lives of others.

We must first affirm it...difficult enough.
Then we must determine to live it out...messy, very messy.

But, as we spend our time on the things that do matter, we find ourselves drawn more deeply into this mission we've been given for this time and in this place.

Now, it's time to talk about some strategy.

Choose joy!

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