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3 Signs You Need to Find Another Place
1. Your current place is draining you rather than fulfilling you.
We all have those days. Those days when we wanna just go home and give up. Those times when where we are and what we do seems to cause more stress than good. Usually, though, in the middle of these times, we still know we’re being fulfilled. That we’re doing what we were created to do. It’s fulfilling us. When where you are quits fulfilling you, you may need to find somewhere or something else. That’s no good way to live.
2. You’re giving your current place only half effort.
Whatever you do deserves your best. Whether it be a place you like or dislike, it should still get your full effort. Sure, there will be days that you don’t feel well or that something else is causing you to get off track, but you should still want to give it full effort. If you find yourself only wanting to give half effort day after day, it may be time to find a new place.
3. Your current place is effecting your family life.
It’s really easy to take work home. Even if your job is strictly a 9-5 kinda job, the frustrations can still make you be different at home. It happens… we all have those times with where we are or what we are doing. But it shouldn’t be a constant or consistent thing. If where you are is changing who you are (for the worse… listen to those around you), then it may be time to find a new place.
OK, those are my 3. Any more ideas? What have you learned from your experience?
Bow Out or Push Through
No matter what you and I do or what we want to accomplish, if it’s worth while and is going to produce results, they’ll come a time when it gets hard.
They’ll come a time when we have to decide.
Will we…
Bow Out or Push Through
The people that live mediocre lives bow out,
the people that accomplish things and reshape the world push through.
They find the motivation and determination to push through the “I wanna quit” moments.
They believe their mission is worth times of uncomfortable surroundings, depressing results, and tough people.
So, what will you do?
What will I do?
Bow Out or Push Through?
Unity in Grace
For the church, unity means putting aside what we could argue forever about and coming together in a concentrated effort against Satan…
Coming together to reach people with the world’s most specialized, urgent, and high-risk mission – reaching the world for Jesus Christ.
Unity flows from grace, not doctrine.
If you and I are going to become undivided and unified around the mission of reaching the lost in our generation, grace must be at the front of our motives. We can’t get hung up on our individual personal convictions and allow them to separate us from the rest of the Church.
Grace, at its core brings about restoration – it brings about unity. Grace is given completely unmerited, regardless of details and regardless of debated doctrine. Grace is completely free. Given to us by the Savior of the world. It has to be extended by us to a dying world. It also has to be extended by us to the very people that we consider to be team mates in the battle we call evangelism.
If our beliefs about each other can’t be based on the very thing that saves us, we must question rather grace is really all we claim it to be.
It can.
We can become undivided around the greatest gift ever given humanity. The beautiful and unmerited faction of grace can unify us.
We must.
Too much is at stake.
Friendly Fire: Has the Church Turned Against Itself?
Growing up I remember playing video games with amazing graphics in a machine known as the Nintendo.
I loved playing games where I could do something through the machine that I could have never done in real life. I loved playing games where I was fighting against something that was attempting to take over the world. My band of commanders and I were ready to take out the evil empire.
However, as a child I would get bored with the games really quickly. There were never enough of the enemies to take out and I would look for something else to do within the game.
When I wasn’t walking out of the level (some of you are tracking with me), I would occasionally begin to fire at my own side… My own teammates.
It wasn’t because it was the goal, I knew it wasn’t, it was because I had lost sight of the real mission of the game – to take out the enemy.
I’m afraid the Church has often been guilty of playing out much the same way.
We’ve lost sight of the real mission and began to fight amongst ourselves. We’ll fight over doctrine, theology, and processes, while often forgetting that it’s all about Jesus.
We need to turn this around. We have to.
In order to reach the world.
Let’s find the essential things we agree on and fight for the ‘good guys’!
Teen Shot Because He’s Gay – We Do It Too
Friends said King, an eighth grader who lived in a group home called Casa Pacifica, was proud of being openly gay. He liked wearing jewelry and makeup to school and he often wore high-heeled boots with the school uniform. He asked his teachers to call him Leticia instead of Larry. Some students bullied him, pupils said. Found here.
It seems outrageous to us that a 14 year old would shoot someone for being gay. That a 14 year old would base anyone else’s life worth on what they said they preferred.
The truth is, you and I do this often without really knowing it.
True, it’s not to this extent… we never shoot anyone or kill them physically.
But we dismiss them because of the way they act or the way they look or where they’re from.
We refuse to build relationships with people because of what we’ve heard about them.
And so we basically decide that they’re not important because they do ____ or don’t do ______ or look like ______ or hang out with ______ or have ______ for parents or _____ for children or live in ______.
And by refusing to associate with them, we let them drift off without knowledge of our beliefs and without ever taking the time to show and communicate the ‘life saver’ to them… tell them about Jesus.
We have to take responsibility for the people around us…
no matter what they claim or what we think about them.
For us Christians, we can share life…
or choose to keep Life to ourselves.
Your thoughts?
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