The struggle

Up until the last five years of my life I had been content with serving in the background. I was the guy who set up stuff, tore down, ran sound, cooked, cleaned ect. and I was comfortable with that. It wasn't until I had a long conversation with a good friend that I came to the conclusion that God couldn't use me to my full potential if I remained in that comfort zone. It started slow, I taught once or twice, then I spoke once here and there. As my obedience progressed more and more chains broke away, and the more I found myself becoming what God had intended for me to be. 

It's never been about a title or a paycheck, it's always been about the students and God and it always will be. I've been struggling a lot lately with being "good enough". No matter what I do or how I do it I'm not gonna do it the way everyone else does it, I never have. As far as I'm concerned doing it the way everyone else does it has only created a generation that comes to church for the social stability or to be a part of something without any accountability of what they are outside the "community" we call church. Personally I'm not satisfied with that, and I don't believe the god I serve is either, so what do we do?do we keep doing the same old - come to church, worship, speak, repent and repeat... Or do we take the time to really embrace change and think completely out of the box and maybe actually for once make a real difference rather than talking about making a difference. 

The old has passed away...behold the new have come...