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Page 194 Leadership Pain
Pastor, broadcaster, and author Bob Gass identifies four primary traits of resilient people:
They take control of their lives instead of spending energy trying to blame others or waiting for them to bail them out.
They may want to quit, but they don’t.
Instead, they look at the past and think about how they’ve handled adversity before, and they look at the present with clear eyes as problem solvers.
They surround themselves with the right people.
We may have grown up in an addicted, abusive, or abandoning family, but we can make choices to spend time with people who live in truth and have hope for tomorrow.
They allow their pain to spur growth instead of collapsing in self pity.
Even when a life goal is completely blocked by disease or any other cause, resilient people find an open door when others only saw the one that’s closed.
they creatively invest themselves in a new venture, often one that focuses on helping others who are experiencing pain from similar physical, emotional, or relational heartaches— and they make a difference.
They insist on changing what they can and not worry about the rest.
For resilient people, encounters with pain enable them to sift through their responsibilities and priorities.
Suddenly, many things that seemed important are no longer on the top of the to-do list.
But other things, such as people they love and a cause they can champion, are now on top.
Shouldn’t we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth?
What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth?
What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy?
Randy Alcorn, 90 Day s of God’s Goodness
In order to create a vision, you have to START somewhere.
John Acuff’s book called start he describes how many people will never start something because of many different reasons some of which are.
We set our expectations to high to begin with
(Never lose weight because the goal was to lose 20 lbs in a week) Many people overestimate what can be accomplished in one year and underestimate what can be accomplished in 5 years.
(Steve Conner)
It is not perfect for us to start so we will never try simply because it does not look good in the beginning.
We see finished podcasters and youtubers and think because mine will not look like that then we won’t even begin.
Yet when you watch the beginning episodes of dudeperfect it was not as well put together as it is now.
They did not start out where they are today.
You may not start writing a blog or new website because it does not start out looking as good as someone you follow who has been doing it for years.
Dave Ramsey says I worked my tail off for 39 years for the media to deem me an overnight success.
(Gary Tanner on the tread mill)
One of my biggest fears when I give young pastors tours of Bridge of Faith is that they will see all that has happened here and think that this is where they need to start out.
We started our Wednesday night feeding off of a simple potluck.
It grew and then the church was buy the supplies for people to cook it all at home.
All of you who serve so faithfully can you imagine today us buying you the supplies to cook in your home for our Wednesday night meal today?
We are going to buy you the supplies to make 50 pizzas at home.
Things had to change in order for us to be where we are today.
Personally as well what worked in the past may not work for you today.
How you handled your finances 5 years ago may not be the way you need to handle them now.
Monday night we had our team worship service and Virgil the youth pastor from John 3:16 ministries spoke.
He shared his testimony of how he came to know the Lord.
It was beautiful.
The Gospel was clear and plain.
As I thought about Vision 2022 for us as a ministry and us personally I thought that is where all this starts.
It starts with the Gospel
This is the start for all of us personally and for us as an organization
The New Way
They are in the wilderness
(old way)
(new way slide)
Closing
Start with the Gospel
Everything else flows out of this.
From this, we go from pain to growth
Ask yourself, What does God want from me this year?
What does God want from me in the next 5 years?
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