Have you ever been a day late?
For those of your who go against the flow, meet Dino Senesi. Dino is with the SBC and is the Director of church Multiplication. He is an all around great guy and has a heart for church planters and seeing a movement of God start right here in SC. I love this post over at his blog, “Thinking Out Loud.”
“..My counselor would say, resolve the past. My coach would say, face the future…”
The Quote of the day.
“You drive a Dodge Minivan, quit trying to glue a Mercedes emblem on it.”
- From Sergi, Russian church planter from Ohio.
I’m involved with a group of Pastors in the upstate, that began when I called Reggie Smith, Pastor of Marathon Church North, and said lets have lunch. The group we call MAD Pastors (Motivate, Assist, & Develop) has been a blast. One thing that we as ministers need is good friends and I’ve many from our group. This week I’m in Tennessee hanging out for a couple of days meeting with a several church planters from Upstate South Carolina and Ohio discussing strategies in new church plants. Here are some of the guys that are here Ryan Bishop, Art Fulks, Sammy Clary, Ray Brock, Walt Tanner, Dorrien Hinsey, Dino Senesi.
I reading a lot of blogs talking about the 08′ Olympics right now. We are just hours away from the opening and I can’t wait. Travis Holmes, a new church planter in Simpsonville, SC has a great thought on going for the gold. He writes:
” Most Christians think that stepping over the line of salvation is the finish line. The truth is that the line of salvation is the starting line. Most cross over and just sit down and wait for heaven. Most cross but then get side-tracked by their own agendas and routes. Others quit when the hills get too steep. But some, run the race of a lifetime. I want GOLD. What will it be for you? DNF (did not finish)? DQ? Or GOLD?”
A great statement and an even better question. We see and hear about so many, “believer,” that are DQ-ed and have DNF’s. Church leaders spend so much time cheering on and encouraging “believers” to continue on, that many times we lose focus of those who have never entered the race and desperately need what is available at the finish.
Run for the Gold/Goal and while you are running encourage those in the stands and on the sidelines to join the race.