We do something strange in Church, well to tell the truth we do a lot of things that are strange in church but one of the things we do is we tend to spend most of our time, energy and resource in people that will not change and quite frankly are a drain.
Don’t get me wrong I realise we need to look after the vulnerable and needy to champion the common man, it is not these people I am talking about it is the people that could do it for themselves but choose not to, they are problem magnets with victim mentalities. There are not many of them but you can guarantee they will suck most of your time and energy if they can and what do we do.
We give them what they want
We pander to them because we don’t want to upset them
And do you know the worst thing of all
In doing this we ignore the people we should be investing into
The all-stars
You know the all-stars, the people who will give you the extra mile every time, who just get on with it without complaint or fuss.
The people that you find you can’t help smiling when you are around them that actually offer solutions not problems.
Wouldn’t it be great if instead of spending all our time with the people that drain us we could invest what we have into these all-stars, to support them to champion them, to release them to soar?
Imagine the impact these people will have on the church, community, city if you do this, to create an environment that causes them to grow and feel safe to express themselves, to become all that God wants them to be.
Just a thought
Tags: speak life, vocal revolution
