Foot in Mouth…I am young

I once again I have to put my foot in my mouth for the blog about the Summit Leadership Willow Creek Conference.  I am young and naive at times thinking that the church can’t learn a thing or two from the world and its leaders.   I have realized in the area of Leadership many things are universal from business to running a church.  The speakers have been on point, insightful, and are all innovative creative risk taking leaders. 

We could learn a thing or two about risk taking in the church.  We are so afraid of change and innovation that we end up avoiding it, promoting the status quo, and churches are mediocre at best if not dead.  We spend too much time promoting the (fill in your denomination here) way and not the way of the master (no not Kirk Cameron) Jesus.  Therefore our people get hung up on doing things a certain way that once worked and had great values, but now they are out of touch and those values mean whatever the people want them to be. 

We need young leaders to rise up not accepting things the way they are to bring innovation and creativity back to the church.  Well, I gues we need to bring Jesus back first and then the above mentioned.  I feel led to do the impossible by the grace of God: Help churches change.  God is opening my heart for those churches we are giving up on, the ones everyone says can’t change, and I want to see them return to their first love of Jesus.  I want to see Jesus bring them back to life.  It starts with us coming back to him:  reprioritizing our lives, our schedules, our families, our hearts to a love for Jesus NOT RELIGION!  Jesus gives life, religion kills.  I want to open them up to accept and love all people especially one another.  We are to be known for our love for one another, out doing one another in honor, and this way people will look to the church and say, “I want to be apart of a community like that.  They have something special”.