Wow!!

Man ive spent the past two days at the churchplanters.com conference and all I can say is wow…I am on overload right now…so much stuff running through my head it’s hard to navigate my thoughts sucessfully. I do guarantee that many posts are to come dealing with what God has been teaching me the past few days…so until then…

Wow!

Yeah, so we just finished up summer camp for ChristWay Community Church in Ooltewah, TN.  God did some really amazing things, it was incredible to be used by God to facilitate His worship.  We had some pretty incredible moments!  I’m really tired…will post more later, just got home, must sleep!

I love my gear…

Random declaration I know, but its true. I haven’t had an opportunity to play with my band in a while, but we got together this past weekend to work on some stuff for a summer camp we’re doing coming up soon. During this intensive weekend of practicing I was reminded how much I love my gear. Its not incredibly much to look at, but I love the sound. Ha ha…I read an article the other day that ranked the Telecaster as the #2 best guitar of all time. Couldn’t agree more unless they changed the rank to #1, which I would definitely agree with more.

So anyways, I attended the weekend service at Buckhead Church this past weekend and was greatly reminded why my passion is my passion. It’s easy to get sucked into mediocrity and just overall “under-achievement” when it comes to the worship/service of our God. The worst thing I think I’ve ever heard in the church is “It’s good enough.” “It’s good enough,” as if God won’t notice that we didn’t put forth the effort to make it truly worthy of his name!

Can you imagine if God had said, “…its good enough?”

Good enough could have been a world that didn’t rotate at the absolute perfect speed to sustain life, or good enough could have been that the reflexes we rely so heavily upon weren’t fully refined by the Creator, and when someone yells heads up we don’t have the capacity to jerk our heads up and dodge the incoming projectile, and avoid bodily harm.

Good enough would have been temple sacrifices, and being tied to the law our entire lives.

God’s plan is always perfect though. His son, redemption, the whole plan wasn’t simply “good enough”, it was the best.

Granted God is perfection, so to do anything less than perfect would be contrary to His nature, and we don’t have that benefit, but how can we offer anything less than the best we have to offer?

“Doing the best we can with what we have” should be a “core value” in the forefront of the life of a Christian. I remember a song I used to hear sung back in the day that said…

“I will not offer anything that costs me nothing…I’ll place before him nothing less than my very best…and if I am called to sacrifice, it will be worthy of my price…I will not offer anything that costs me nothing.”

As Christ followers, may we never succumb to the plague of “it’s good enough.” To many people today are so willing to scrape by on bare minimums. They go to church the bare minimum they have to, they stand boldly for Christ the bare minimum they have to, they worship God the bare minimum they have to, because we’ve created this Christian culture of “good enough,” this is all I have to do to get by and be ok, and then we wonder why the power of God seems to be a mystery to those around us.

The greatest times of Christian impact through the years has been during times of sacrifice. When people devoted their lives to the cause of Christ without regard for what it cost, even death. When people are willing to sacrifice everything for something, people stop and say “Wow, that was worth all of that?”

What would happen if we broke out of bare minimum Christianity. What would happen if we took risks to be a bold representative, what would happen if we made a priority of Christianity in the forefront of our lives instead of on the back burner? Would would happen if our lives were so blaring that people stopped and wondered, “Wow, God is worth all of that?” To which our answer would be, “Come and see…”

Ah I am rambling, but man… a good reminder to me this week that just because others will excuse you to be “good enough,” doesn’t mean its truly acceptable…We owe God more than that!