So we rolling into our big week-end for the CEP. A year ago all hell was breaking loose... Crisis and criticism were rampant. Peace came with the Spring of this year. And now we are reaching for something new. Unity in purpose, getting behind a project, getting folks to really believe that they have something to say about what's going on in our church, that's what we are trying to do.
It isn't easy.
My experience of this kind of stuff is limited and I'm guessing nothing new is happening here. Just I'm trying to figure it our for us...
I'm wondering if comparing what I'm trying to do with the job of a lion tamer. At first blush, it sure feels that way. Wild beasts who need to be tamed and brought into line. Ready to pounce and devour when my back is turned. Get the whip out, make sure they know who's boss...
OK, it is a really bad comparison. But if I'm not going to be an authoritative jerk then how in the world do we come together and get behind what God is doing in our world?
God's Spirit has got to show up in a big way and not in a supernatural hocus-pocus way. No, we need to see him at work through the means of grace that are at our disposal. This week-end we want to come together and hear God speak to us as a body, everyone has their place.
It's just a times I feel like they see themselves as lions who need to be tamed. Which means we as leaders have probably acted like that in the past.
God have mercy on us...
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