Ok so here’s a simple thought. Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about how much so many churches and youth ministries base their worth upon how they feel they stack up against others. What that looks like is that we talk a lot about the things that could be comparable. So we get stuck talking about numbers, budgets, buildings and other things like that.
But let’s be honest. It’s not the way we should be doing things.
I work at a church that has an amazing amount of potential. Our members have more resources and gifts available to them then I have ever seen before. If we compare ourselves with others we look pretty good and are doing a lot of great stuff. But, if we compare ourselves against our potential we don’t stack up very well.
So how do we go about this? Do we beat ourselves up because we aren’t meeting our potential or do we have a way of somehow figuring out our how to reconcile all of this.
Truth: I don’t know. But I will say this. Recently I’ve felt God telling me over and over again that I need to “dream bigger”. I don’t think I’m being told that I need to be bigger or to seek a bigger thing but that the “dreams” I have need to be bigger. What that means for my youth ministry or my church I don’t know. I just know that for the last 6 months I keep hearing this same thing. What could God do with us if we stopped limiting ourselves and dreamed bigger?
So there you go. I’m wrestling to figure out what our potential is. What’s yours?
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love this. Especially the idea of a group of people from the same church asking. Not comparing to the church down the street, but to who we are, and who God calls us to be.
So good.
Thanks Riddle. After I wrote it I felt like there was clearly a better way to say what I said but I decided to leave it alone. I think we have so much potential. I’m not going to be satisfied just comparing with others.