Dehydration

I'm excited about moving to the Middle School next month. It has reminded me that we are still a church plant and there is still work to do. I was reminded tonight, however, that there is more to the process than strategy and planning. We need to find out who we are, what the needs of our community are, and how we are going to meet them and fulfill his mission of making disciples. All that is true. However the most important thing as always is our relationship to Him. We are, first and foremost, Christians! We build churches because we are Christians. We share our faith because we are Christians. We give time, energy, wisdom, money, possessions, love, etc. because we are Christians. But if we loose connection to Christ because we are too busy doing everything else, we have not succeeded. We have to ask ourselves ( as a church planter said tonight) what we are hungry for. If the answer is not God then we might need to take a look at why we are doing what we are doing. I want to be hungry and thirsty for God more than a big church. more than being successful. More than having everything I need in this world. because if I am hungry and thirsty for God everything else will come! "Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you."