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Every now and then I see a truck here in town that is hard to miss. Truthfully, I cringe every time I see it. The back of the vehicle is covered in large, bold red letters that read:
“JESUS IS COMING BACK AND HE IS ANGRY!”
I often wonder about the owner of that truck.
I wonder about his story. I wonder about his experience in church. I also wonder how on earth he could read the gospels and come to that conclusion.
If the Son of Man (Jesus) was called a drunk and glutton and demon-possessed, we cannot say that perception is reality. In fact, if you do the types of things Jesus did, your name and reputation might be slandered too.
In a time when many of the old ways of traditional church in the West are found less and less effective to reaching emerging generations, perhaps we could use some more rule breakers to help us imagine a new way forward. Perhaps some some righteous rebellion is precisely what the church needs.
Jesus taking on flesh was more than a CEO of a major corporation visiting a specific franchise to solve a problem, as in Undercover Boss. Rather, Jesus came to enter into the problem, to befriend the afflicted, to really and truly be one of us.
It’s really easy to think about the company you’re going to start. Or the new service you’re going to launch. Or the new project management system you’re going to implement. Or the church you’re going to plant. Thinking’s easy. The doing is where vision turns into reality.
I’m drawn to confident people. I tend to avoid people who need to be right all the time. Being confident and being right are two different things. The key difference is humility.
Conflict is a normal part of life. We experience it in business and in ministry. So it’s important we learn how to navigate it with skill and love.
If there’s anything we’ve needed in 2020 and now in 2021, it’s inner strength. And it applies equally to business challenges and tests of our faith in Jesus.
For 25 years I was a full-time pastor. So, I’m a Bible-guy. I had a radical, “Come to Macedonia” moment that convinced me to resign my pastorate and begin a new adventure with God. In early 2020 I launched an LLC. So, today I’m running a full-time solopreneur business called Teleion, LLC in Fargo, ND.
That means I’m co-vocational because my business is a part of my plan to launch a network of multiplying micro-churches…
