I'm looking forward to a great weekend. Tonight I am going to experience monster trucks with some of my mentees at the Consol Energy Center here in Pittsburgh. I know it's going to be a blast! Then, on Saturday morning I'll be training a group of new LAMP mentors at the Faison Primary School in Homewood. I'm also on call for North Way on Saturday, which means if anyone in the congregation of 4,000+ people need anything I will be the first responder. Finally, after church on Sunday afternoon I'm facilitating a meeting of current active LAMP mentors to encourage them and build community with one another.
It's important for ministry leaders to spend time building relationships, in many different contexts, with a wide variety of people. The world is an extremely diverse place, and the Church should reflect that. So, for me, whether it's the noise of monster trucks in an arena or the quiet halls of a church building, I know God is always moving and always at work in many different places in this world. It's my job to show up where and when he asks me to show up. And I can't do that if I'm too busy sitting on my couch watching TV, or maybe even sitting in some cubicle somewhere pretending to do church work. Jesus never had a cubicle, and things seemed to work out pretty well for him. Just saying.
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