Three-Step Process

An oft-stated line from a previous pastor... information becomes revelation becomes transformation.

We learn. We go. We do. We be. And repeat. This is the process of becoming.

Change is rarely overnight. It is, with much greater frequency, a disciplined series of steps taken towards a specific destination and done so, with great intentionality. Do we get thrown off along the way? Yes. Distracted? Constantly. Frustrated? Often. Discouraged? Well, it usually follows frustration where if goes.

I worry what happens when learning ceases. And worse, what happens when the discipline to do so is lost and forgotten?  It's really dangerous ground for any individual to find themselves. Stagnation. Ignorance. Audacity. There really is no reason to step in the room and leave with absolutely no new information. If anything, there should at least be a perspective to take away or a truth reaffirmed. Anything that does not leaving you looking back at an activity or an event as though it were a waste of time.

Hopefully, at least where people and relationships are concerned, that it is not the parting sentiment. Especially for the church, which is a living organization, full of people that should be so filled with God that we speak life. For the power of to give life is gone, then perhaps Life has parted from us; and while that's dangerous for the believer, it is destructive for a pastor.

Pray, this #seniorPastorMonday, that pastors would always keep and maintain a spirit to receive. Pray they would not be tempted to reach and exist at a level where they have arrived or attained all. May there be a continual reliance upon God for His Work and a continual thirst for the understanding of His Word. Pray for a strengthening of discipline to know and to seek the deep things of God.

That the church would be stronger and greater
Because of the increase that God brings to the life of the leadership
For the glory of God.

- PNC