Here’s some brief, random things I’m learning from our adventure in Indy known as City Community Church…might be helpful to others planting or just people breathing:)…I still can’t believe God has entrusted this moment to us…are we writing any of this down??

Focus on preparing people for the 167.  (hours that is)

True disciples aren’t mass produced by an efficient “church” machine..they’re hand-made over a lifetime by devoted followers of Jesus Christ

Be flexible…structures gotta bow to functionality.  It’s easy to set something in stone and then 2 days later feel the overwhelming urge to jackhammer it.  Only then you can’t cause it’s too hard.  Might as well just let Jesus be the only Rock and leave everything else soft and pliable. Clayish, if you will.

Be mobile…don’t get too much stuff or you’ll have too much stuff.  The great evangelist and philanthropist George Muller was know to say (I’m paraphrasing) “Never have more stuff than you could pack in a day.”  I want to be ready to go, to do and to become all that God desires.  The more stuff I have the harder that becomes.  Tough to GIVE when all you’re worried about is what you’ve GOT.

Cultivate your first love.

I’m moving from what I was, into I AM

Be there for your family.  Yes, you wanna love the world.  Start with those closest to you.  If your twitter peeps and facebook friends take precedence over your spouse and kids, you’re a sad, sad little person preparing for a lonely virtual existence.  Seriously.  You’re not that important.  But you could be…

Create space in your life. 

Be compassionate…everybody has a story; what’s yours?  It’s easy to become judgmental and impatient until we realize what God continues to do in and for us on a daily basis.  The story drives the action.  Help someone re-write their story or walk alongside as God renews their perspective and you can speak into the future of their actions with growing compassion.  Point fingers and..well…that hasn’t worked out too good.

Look into people’s eyes.

Lead and follow.  Leadership by committee doesn’t work.  Heck doesn’t really make sense but on the other hand, it seems like everybody has been a part of a poor, authoritarian leader’s ego trip.  I’m a leader.  I’m also a follower of the greatest leader the world has ever known and He calls me to serve as He did.  Only servants know how to serve…

Visioneers cast vision that vision-nots can see.  Vision-nevers will try to gag and blindfold both.

Build THE Kingdom…not yours…getabsorbed…n