Good Day All,
As I start my second week of sabbatical, I have really enjoyed defogging my mind of the daily grind that makes me tick. I love thinking and praying of how today can be a day that advances the ministry for the future. I have to purposefully do other things to crate a new way to think while I am supposed to be at rest from the day to day operations of directing an organization of many Kingdom-minded churches. I admit it is difficult since my position in ministry isn’t really work to me, it is what is known as a calling. Don’t get my words as I don’t work, because it is, but when you know you are called by God to be where you are, the work is not burdensome. It is as if the position was completely created for me. In previous ministries, I was struggling with dealing with wineskins that were already existing and having to explain, the new wine cannot be contained in the current paradigm. Changing the vessel for new ministries is the first thing that needs to change and then new ways can be added to that new system.
That is where I am at in this time of rest, refresh, and refocus. I have to change my vessel (mind) to be rewired into this new way of thinking. In church work it is a slow process to change a paradigm, but on a sabbatical, it has to move in a more rapid pace. I will go back to work and change my thinking back to the system that is in place. However, I should be back in a restful, refreshed, and more focused methodology. I have been blessed to have created a new vessel by which our association operates, so my plan is that it should be an easier transition back into this new already created system Ince my sabbatical is over.
When Nehemiah had taken on the task of rebuilding the Jerusalem wall, it came with lots of opposition. Nehemiah 6:15-16, “So on October 2[d] the wall was finished—just fifty-two days after we had begun. 16 When our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it, they were frightened and humiliated. They realized this work had been done with the help of our God.” Our work as ministry leaders has to be done with the help of God, otherwise we become just another good deeded person and not a God-led servant.
In The Light, Larry, 1 John 1:7
In The Light, 1 John 1:7 