What are we going to do?
When you transition there are a ton of questions that go thru your mind each day. Questions like, where are we going to live, what is going to be our families favorite restaurant, or is there going to be a mini-mart anything like QuickTrip in the area. (For those of you from Tulsa…you know the power of QT).
I have found over the course of the past few weeks that questions abound in the midst of transition.
A huge question that you have to tackle fairly quickly once you arrive at your new post is “What are we going to do?” What are we going to do about outreach? What are we going to do about discipleship? What are we going to do about services, recruiting volunteers, missions trips and facilities. God called us here … now … what are we going to do?
I have found out (sometimes the hard way) that it is far to easy to fall in the trap of trying to answer those questions too quickly. Before we as leaders can answer the question of - what are we going to do - we first have to answer the question of … what are we about, why are we opening the doors or what are our core values.
As I read the scriptures and seek God in prayer I keep coming back to the fact that it is who we are … that defines what we are suppose to do.
I think sometimes (I know I have been guilty of this in the past) we get distracted by the latest trends or toys of student ministry and lose site of who we are in Him and what he has mandated us to do for His Kingdom.
When I strip everything away and get to the foundation of what God wants from us as His church I see that we are simply to:
Worship Jesus - Preach Jesus - and Build Community.
It’s just that simple.
As I look at worshiping Jesus, preaching Jesus and building community in the context of Visalia First Assembly and 419 Student Ministries, I do not know as of yet, what those things look like in detail. I am not sure how they will be played out in our facilities, staging, programs, service venues, or partnership teams.
But that’s OK.
I’m pretty sure God knows … maybe instead of trying to figure it out ourselves we should just ask Him.
