Not Much New

A day and a half of meetings with intense discussion brings me to the end of the day with not much energy to say a whole lot. Sometimes I think I would rather be out moving around and getting physically tired than to sit in meetings. This was our church planting strategy committee which I always find energizing. The problem becomes it is intense at time. We end up dealing with issues that affect church planting and seek to find ways to address them in positive and healthy ways. We seek to discover and develop methods and models that we can share and learn ourselves. We become aware of the need to use language that doesn't put us into boxes or lock us out of other boxes.

I need to be thinking, praying, pondering, and meditating on this over the next weeks and months. But one thing I know is that above all else I dislike these labels with a passion. If you put me into one of them I will rebel. If you insist that I am in one, I will get upset. I am a firm believer in sticking to as consistent an approach to life as I can. Sometimes that means that I will even take positions that are not politically or theologically correct as far as the language police are concerned. I think we do ourselves and our churches great disservice when we finagle, fiddle, and finesse language until it loses its power to motivate and excite. We also close ourselves to great opportunities for relationship and hope with brothers and sisters.

I know we all do it. I know it is impossible to avoid. Yet, I work for the opportunity to speak and be heard and then to listen and pay attention to brothers and sisters of all stripes and persuasions. That, I am sure, will be a significant contribution of the thinking of the postModern world. If we take nothing else from these cultural changes, I pray that we at least take the opportunity to learn from our diversities.

The Post-Season Continues
It is the top of the ninth on Saturday night. Fla- 3; NYY-2. I will probably turn this off, watch the rest of the game and go to bed.

Perhaps I will find the energy and interest in my mind's working to get back to some real blogging tomorrow or Monday at the latest.