This weekend Spider-man 3 opens up world wide. This time the story deals with the battle of letting power be miss used and you turn from your mission and go bad. Spider-man was created to remind us and encourage us a simple yet powerful truth...
"With Great Power, comes great responsibilty."
Journey and it's leadership are facing a responsibilty, power battle right now. The church is growing and growing. Ministry ares area being pushed on a weekly basis. Leaders have gifts and abilties, personal live and families and burning hearts to make a impact and difference for God. Right now the battle is on..."How much more can we take with leaders that we have?" "How much more can you ask and expect of me?" "Where are the other heroes?"
It's a reality of ministry and life that we must all figure out. As we step into leadership, as we improve our gift mix.... God promises to ask more of us, give us greater responsibilty. I pray that every leader (current or new) stanfs firm and accepts the challenge that comes with these new / greater responsibilties. Don't give in, don't let the pressure crush you or make you give up. This weekend we gather for our annual Leadership Advance retreat. Our theme is IMPACT. Not only focus on more impact, but celebrate how much of an impact we have had through the grace of God and the working of the Holy Spirit.
There are great challenges ahead.... we'll give them name, faces and begin to do battle with them this weekend.
I am ready to lead and follow God to the next step of leadership and responsibilty..... are you ?
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What a weekend!
The Leadership Advance was a great success and mentally exhausting. I am so proud have spent the 24 hrs with the current, new and future leaders of Journey. God is leading us forward and this team really seems ready to accept the challenge to lead this community forward and through many changes.
I have to admit, the hardest part is for me hand off the many hats that I've worn since launching the church and focusing myself on a few pastoral and ldeadership areas. This Sunday, I was "kicked off" the set up team. It was strange to be there and not really push, pull or plug in anything. I did fold programs !!!! As a action driven person, it'a big emotional and mental step to watch others act and me watch. I know in my heart of hearts these transitional steps will make Journey strong and grow all of our leaders... including me.
God has given not just me the responsiblity to lead and have Journey reach out to Rochester.. and I've confident that with these people grabbing firmly onto the responsibilty... God in his great power will continue to do amazing things in and through this grow community of believers.
I went and saw Spiderman 3 this last weekend. Really good movie and ton of great teaching points about relationships, forgiveness, marriage and even faith.
They packed a lot of comicbook history into a 2 1/2 film... actually too much. But the film is another example of a well done story, that can reach a braod audience and have a solid moral, even faith based message behind it.
I'm looking forward to using this film as a teaching tool in my summer blockbuster '07 series.
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