MISSED IT....BY "THAT" MUCH!!!!!!!

     Ever feel like your always 1 or 2 steps behind the next big idea. Last year a group of students and I begin feeding homeless communities in Lakeland Fla (before the city kicked them out). 6 months later REVIVAL HITS. For the last 10 months God's been putting a discontent in my heart how the church "Markets JESUS". Donald Miller writes a book called what? MARKETING JESUS! I swear in my line of work, there are always books being written, or philosophy's being implemented that "just" get done ahead of mine. As aggrevatting as that is, it's also comforting to know your in the right "ballpark", to where God is leading your life. This isn't that comforting though at the time. 

     You understand JOB (the bible guy..not the career) when he says "HE deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason' he sends them wandering through a trackless waste". 

But we must realize that as long as were in the same ocean, the waves of God's majestic visions will open in front of us. 

We must be patient. 

Psalms 143 says "Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

     May we always be hungry to do. And patient to listen, wait, and BE STILL~

-ThE iDiOt-

Staying smaller to BE bigger.

This world is built on reproduciton. There are appoximately 4.1 Births per second which works out to 354240 Global Births per day. Apparently someone dies every 10 seconds, and every 5 seconds someone is born. The world is slowly overpopulating. But the real question here is are we better off? Does "more" always mean better?

I find it amazing that JESUS didn't come and say "I'M FROM NAZERETH...I'M TAKING THIS CITY, AND PROCLAIMING WHO I AM".

He said "Give me 12". I can change the world with 12.

Church's are planting left and right. And that's great! But do we need MORE churchs? Or better one's?

Do we need more plants with 10-100 people in them. Or what if we take the ones that already have 25 people in it and make them better. Even cap off, before we plant.



I believe Jesus understood the principle of staying SMALLER to BE bigger.

The SUPERSIZE ME, GO LARGE, KING ME mentality has to be looked at to see how effective we as a church, as a people, as christians are actually being?



What's wrong with a 500 memeber church BEING the church?

Or 2,000 member church, BEING A GATHERING?

Food for thought?



Now I know alot will read and say "SMALL MIND...SMALL VISION"...

I'm 6'6 my friends. There's nothing in me that thinks small.



I've spoke in front of thousands,

let groups of hundreds,

and have found the most impact coming from small groups focused on BEING bigger.



kinda like Jesus did.



ThE iDiOt....