What keeps you up at night…

benlreed —  April 18, 2011 — 2 Comments

…reveals what’s important to your heart.

Here are things I’m wrestling through:

  • Is our small groups system really creating disciples?
  • Is our small groups system a great picture of Gospel community?
  • What does it look like for our whole church to be moving in the same direction?
  • What’s next?
  • Am I leading in such a way that others are growing to love God and people more?
  • Is my ministry online truly helpful?  What needs to change so that it does more good?
  • Am I leading my family well?  How can I do a better job?
  • Is my son growing towards being a man of God?

These are the things keeping me up at night.

If you’re leading an organization…what is it that is causing you to sweat, go to work early, pray more, fast more, sleep less, and work harder?

If you don’t know what that is, maybe you should stay up at night and figure it out…

One day soon afterward Jesus went up on a mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night. At daybreak he called together all of his disciples and chose twelve of them to be apostles… – Luke 6:12-13

 

 

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Christ follower, husband, father, writer, pastor of small groups at Long Hollow Baptist Church. Communications director for the Small Group Network.
  • http://bit.ly/hWr7Cw Rob T

    i’ve just been thru a season as a pastor where i would actually suggest the opposite. i realized that I was striving. and then it was as if God’s word jumped off the page: “cease striving and know that I am God, I will be exalted among the nations”. wow. what a relief. what a weight off! i have been trying to live into that peace, but my nature wants to keep on trying to work it out.

  • http://twitter.com/ltbaxter Larry Baxter

    “Is our small groups system really creating disciples?
    What does it look like for our whole church to be moving in the same direction?
    Am I leading in such a way that others are growing to love God and people more?
    Is my son growing towards being a man of God?”

    What a fantastic set of questions to be wrestling with! I don’t know the answers, but I’m pretty sure that with those questions, the right heart, and (as rtucker suggests) total reliance on God, I’m pretty sure God will bless you in your pondering. That said… get some sleep, and know that the fruit/results/growth is absolutely in God’s hands.