With the sessions of the Willow Creek Leadership Summit still ringing in my ear and having taken up Bill Hybels' call to read something of value at least 30 minutes every day, I seem to be in caught in a barrage of truth and catalysts. Tim Keller's talk on The Prodigal God and the book from which it came (and I just read) redefined not only the Prodigal Son parable (Luke 15:11), but have me starting to constantly evaluate whether I am skating by trying to follow the rules or serving at the pleasure of the Father. (More on the Prodigal God in a later post.)

The wrapping up of my church staff position, a podcast on equipping volunteers for ministry vs paying staff, and Harvey Carey's call to "get out of the huddle and play the game" have me looking seriously how I will serve as a member of the new church Karene and I are attending should be. If that didn't seem to be at least enough food for thought, I have the new book I'm reading and a conversation with a friend to go for the knock-out. The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns (the President of World Vision) talks about the propensity of Christians to look Kingdomward, and forget about God's call for us now, in the world. I'm 1/3rd of the way through the book at this point, so I'll have more thoughts on it later, but Stearns makes the following observation,

"The thing about truth that makes it most annoying is that it is true, making anything that contradicts it, false."

The conversation I had yesterday was moving all over the place about politics and religion, but after talking about my experience reading Keller's book and my friend's reasons for being disillusioned with the church, I had to confirm that his reasons were valid and... true. I wanted to say that I could prove them wrong, or undertake the responsibility of proving that with my actions. Pasts deeds will only serve to confirm his position, so what do I do from here? The last month has been a great huddle, now I have to go out and play the game.

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