Church on Purpose.

I think what I find most challenging about this Job is all the little things that I am consuming all the time. I bet that is a challenge in many jobs. There are so many little things to keep sorted in our minds. Is this the result of technology? Is it that we now have the ability to have our fingers in so many pies? Hopefully we keep so many projects open because we believe that they have life changing potential. I believe in the programs we run, that the Holy Spirit can use them the change hearts.

Summers off is a very arbitrary thing. Schools where established that way so that Kids where in school in the slowest months for agriculture and back home helping when they were most needed. The church follows this calendar, as do many organizations, out of convenience.

What do the two above paragraphs have in common? I’ll tell you. Should we at Grace UMC rework our programs to have more of a 12 month consistency, or should we take summers to rest and refit, to reexamine? Should we still take the break a or move the break. I am starting to land on Advent being the season of rest, were the church should prepare for a new year of Kingdom work. Usually Advent is a really busy time of year. Thanksgiving, Christmas Prep, end of the year giving campaigns. 

Whatever the culture of Grace UMC becomes , Summer Break, Winter Break or a Twelve month church, we should be doing it on Purpose.  Churches stuck in ruts, rarely are acting on purpose. Like the humans who staff them they become creatures of habit.  It is time to break the habit. More later… Peace.