just maybe

maybe we have complicated things too much. It's funny how we as pastors can get so caught up in our own terms, our methods, our vision... that we miss the point. It is hard to find the balance of having vision and being intoxicated with your own vision. I do believe that God give specific missions and specific visions for each body of Christ. However we must not miss the goal... to make Disciples. The easiest way to work this out is to see how transferable it is. I've found that if I can't explain the "vision" to someone in 5 min then it's probably too complex. This is not to say that we need to dumb things down, however maybe we ought to take some clues from our culture. Google- people use it because it's google stupid. They use it because you can write an email, upload a doc or chat or search for a flight to Africa all from the same place. It's integrated into life and it flows.

Remember that Jesus entrusted His mission with regular men, hard working, untrained men. They didn't need a masters in theology to follow his train of thought. In fact, they might of missed a lot of what He was saying in the moment but the Jesus trusted His Spirit to work out His mission in their life in the normality of life. He sent them out to do it. He told them to that He was sending them out in His power (not his fancy diagrams), to be HIs people (not a sexier version of him), to bring His teachings (not cool little rebottled catch phrases) to where they lived and where they were sent to (Jesus said, as you are going... make disciples). The end goal was that we would carry His Kingdom (not our take on what it looks like) into the world. And the proof of our discipleship was if people were being discipled. Imagine that!

Maybe, just maybe, we need to be refreshed by our call to make disciples. What if we took all of our "church life" (BTW I think that is bad theology, all of life is God's life, all our money is God's money, all our time is God's time)... but what if we looked at what we call "church" and asked the question, "is this making disciples of Jesus?"

Maybe we would understand that our "ME Church" mentality was the farthest thing from the mission of Jesus?