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Sunday Night Reflections 9.14.08

September 14, 2008 in Blog,My Life with 0 Comments

It’s been a pretty sweet week… here are some thoughts:

New Season of Rev- Today we had our last service without a youth pastor. It’s been a little over a year of Sean, Zack, and I running youth. I am excited for a new season of Rev and to see it go to another level. I just helped move in our new youth pastor (Nathan Hurst), he is a great guy and I am pumped to see God work through him!

19 North - Zack and Lauren and doing a whole month series called “Co-Ed” which is on sex, dating, and the single life. It’s a great series. Last night ZB took talked to the ladies and Lauren talked to the guys. I would recommend listening to the podcasts! Also, we’re having the first ever Silver Ring Thing 20-something event at Victory through 19 North this Friday. Do not miss that!

Redefining Relationships – Craig Groeschel had a great blog series this week on redefining relationships. He talked about how the bigger a church gets, the bigger our families become, and as we just grow up in life, we have to constantly be redefining our relationships with people. I’m just starting to see this in ministry and I am realizing it is a very hard thing to go through. Craig’s insight really helped me out.

Loves Correction and Submission and Authority – I’ve been feeding on these two series by Keith Moore… they pretty much rocked my world. Everyone (especially young leaders) need to listen to these two series (along with all of Keith Moore’s series!!)

Fear Factor – So we’re having a month long Fear Factor competition at Rev. It’s been crazy! We had our 2nd round this past Wednesday and made students bob for worms in all kind of nasty junk. It was a blast and I’m pumped for next week… only 4 contestants left!

I’m going out to watch the Steelers game with some great friends tonight… until next time! Love you guys!

What Matters Most (Part 2)

August 29, 2008 in Blog,Ministry,Relationships with 0 Comments

“I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters, you were doing it for me.” -Matthew 25:40

I want to share a story of something that happened to me recently that had an amazing impact on me:

I was out with a bunch of friends (I will not use names) . . . at the end of the night one friend had some circumstances come up in which I had to stay with them after everyone left. Selfishly, my first thought was… this stinks… I want to go home (I had nothing of importance to do…honestly I wanted to play Super Mario Galaxy). I sat their . . . annoying thoughts running through my head, when suddenly I looked over at my friend and they had burst into tears. We started talking, I gave them a hug, and I ended up praying with them over the next half hour.

As he was leaving that night he turned me and said, “Bubba, God is so good . . . I guess he can take something horrible, and turn it into something wonderful.”

I thought to myself, what if I had just left, what if I wouldn’t have talked with them, hugged them, and prayed with them. My heart starting breaking, one because I almost missed that amazing opportunity to share God’s love with someone, second, that I have not been making what is important to HIM important to me. I am making the decision to refuse to settle for anything less now than what is important to Him now. This is another one of those life changing things happening in my life right now… so what about you?

Do you find yourself pressing ignore on your phone because you don’t want to be bothered? You’re too busy to spend time with someone in need? When someone wants to talk to you about something they’re going through do you automatically have thoughts like, “I do not want to do this right now… maybe later . . . go see someone else . . . leave me alone!”

I think it’s time we all evaluate what matters most… and make sure what matters to HIM, matters to us.

What Matters Most (Part 1)

August 27, 2008 in Blog,Ministry,Relationships with 0 Comments

“I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters, you were doing it for me.” -Matthew 25:40

One thing God has really been teaching me is to make what matters most to him, matter most to me. God’s most precious possession is people! God loves people! Now don’t get me wrong, I love people, but I’ve had to do some repenting over the last month when it comes to how I treat God’s prized possessions.

I think as twenty somethings it is easy to get focused on ourselves . . . where we’re going, what we’re going to do with our lives, who we’re going to date and marry. We build our reputations up on Facebook, try to become friends with people who can do something for us and get us somewhere, and get so focused on work that we forget about what we’re really here for: to make a difference in peoples lives. So here are some things God’s been teaching me along these lines:

  • God dealt with my heart months ago, “Whose kingdom are you trying to build yours or mine?
  • How are you treating people who can do absolutely nothing for you?
  • We can get so focused on doing the work of the ministry that we stop doing ministry!
  • The best minute I’ll spend today is the one I spend investing in people!
  • People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
  • Everyday I ask myself, who can I add value to today. At the end of the day I ask, who did I add value to today.

How do you treat the least of these?? Does what matters to God matter to you? How are you treating the people who can do absolutely nothing to benefit your life?

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