Brian reminded me today of the importance of purpose. I’m all about purpose and I’m also a firm believer in the Purpose Driven Church model. The idea of the church making it a priority to fit everything it does into one of the 5 purposes of the church makes a lot of sense. That brings me to my blog and determining the purpose of this blog, as well as my ministry. This blog began because I had another blog, which I still maintain, but I got to a point where I felt like I needed to focus my attention on technology in the church. As a result, this blog was born. In the beginning I was focused, and ready to go. It seems like I have been at this forever, but I only began about last September or October. Over these months, I have changed things, redesigned things, moved from blogger to my own domain, and I have even totally wiped this blog out of the blogosphere, unintentionally, of course. So, needless to say, it has survived. Lately, I have just been kind of in a blah mode, not much to say. At least not much that I felt was really worth sharing, plus life gets in the way. So today, as I mentioned, Brian got me to thinking about all this and I realized I need to get back to my roots, so to speak. So tonight, I have redesigned my blog, actually just restored the template that I was using before I deleted it last time, still got some tweaking to do though. I have also added back in the tag line I started with: Equipping the church to use technology to effectively reach people for Christ Also I added the verse back in that pretty well sums up why it is that I do this:
Take your everyday, ordinary life–your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life–and place it before God as an offering. Romans 12:1(msg)
That is the point! That’s what this is all about, just taking my everyday, ordinary life, all that I do and placing it before God as an offering. I like the first 2 verses, but for the blog I settled for just the first:
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life–your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life–and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Rom 12:2 Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
This is what I believe God wants from me, I don’t do this to please anyone or to make myself look good, I do it because this is where God has placed me and where He is leading me. So at this point in my life, I’m trying to focus in on the important things, as well as organize myself enough to be effective in these important things. I’ve got another project I’m working on that I’m excited about but it’s not quite ready for prime time, but it will be soon enough. It’s not a big deal, really, but it’s fun and it will be fun to see where it goes. God has really been hammering me lately and taking me to a deeper relationship with Him. There is alot of work to do and I feel like He is preparing me, maturing me, drawing me into a closer walk with Him, in preparation for where He is taking me. This is my offering to God and my prayer is that I will embrace all that He does for me and use it for His glory, in this blog, in my church and in my family. (not in that order, in fact, in the exact opposite order) Not very ‘church-techy’, I know, but this post is more about helping me to regain my focus and set my priorities straight. There are exciting things ahead, so hang on!