Sometimes, in an age of Web 2.0, social networking, demographically targeted advertising, it’s nice to go back a bit and do something more traditional.

Which was why seeing this made my day.

Yup. We’re advertising at the local little league park.

Kind of random, I know, but a great way for us to get our info out to our community. Especially since we see the Internet Campus as such a great outreach tool. Maybe someone would never think of stepping into McLean Bible Church the building, but they just might log on to watch a service from their home. And they just might have their lives changed.

All because of a little league banner.

Maybe next year we’ll sponsor a team’s jerseys

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“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.”
-Matthew 13:44

“I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.”
-Revelation 3:15-17

We see verses like these. We read them. We might even be convicted by them.

But we don’t do anything. We stick to the status quo.

It’s easier.
It’s safer.

But it’s wrong.

There is no middle ground.
There is no compromise.
There is no lukewarmness.

It’s just not an option.

I want to respond the right way. I’m not so sure I’m doing a great job of it though. I desperately need God to help me.

How are you going to respond?

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I have an interesting relationship with myself. There is a very real part of me that does not believe in myself. This part of me believes that I am next to useless and constantly tells me that I am not really very good at anything.

And then there is another part. A voice that the other part tries to drown out. This voice tells me what is true. What the reality is. This voice tells me who I really am in light of what Christ has done for me, and who I am now in Him.

The first part hates this part. It yells as loud as it can to influence me. To get me to believe the lies and to get me to ignore the other voice. Many times it succeeds. The first part makes me wants me to believe it. It almost feels unnatural to believe otherwise.

The comforting part though is that even though that part may succeed, I just need to believe the second part. Listen to what the second voice is saying and recognize who I am in truth. This is harder than it sounds. It is a constant war against the flesh in order to believe who God has called me (and us) to be and to follow Him.

When we recognize who we are in Christ, then we can truly do great things. Not necessarily be “great” as the world defines it, but accomplish great things for God. Things that we could only do with the power of the Holy Spirit flowing through us.

I want to do great things. The first step in that is silencing the part of me that thinks I can’t.

I’m serious about this.

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Not that you were wondering, but just in case, this is a glimpse of what we’ve got going on each Sunday, give or take a person at any given time

Takes a bit of tech work when you’re doing it live! Definitely a fun place to be on a Sunday.

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So if you’ve been reading this blog you know that for the past year I’ve been involved with an amazing program at McLean Bible Church called the Future Leaders Program.

The purpose of the program is to equip young leaders for a lifetime of ministry. The hope is that as the church grows and older leaders transition out, these younger leaders will step in and continue the work that God is doing at McLean Bible Church.

I won’t talk too much longer about the program, because I think I blog about it about every week, but it’s important context for the rest of the post.

So around March I started to realize that the year was almost up and I didn’t have a job for after the program ended. There is no guarantee of employment after the year ends, so I was left wondering what was going to happen. I certainly had a very focused prayer life around then.

I have been working for the Communications Team at McLean Bible Church for the past year, and it was an absolutely incredible experience. I learned so much about the practical application of what I studied when I got my degree in Public Communication at American University, and I got the chance to work with an amazing team of communicators and graphic designers.

In late March, I was offered a position after the Future Leaders Program ended with the Internet Campus. This was not only an answer to prayer because I got to continue working at McLean Bible Church, but it is something I am absolutely looking forward to and something that I know I will have an amazing time doing. I get to work on the cutting edge of ministry, doing things that are only being done by a handful of people around the world. Wow. Just thinking about that makes me excited.

But what excites me the most though is the impact we have the chance to make in people’s lives. The world is changing rapidly, and now more than ever we have the opportunity to carry our message to both the ends of the earth but also to our own backyard in ways that we never dreamed of through technology. I am very excited to be able to take part in that.

So I’m now working for the Internet Campus. My new boss is actually a former Future Leader himself, so it’s great to have that connection, and I’m definitely looking forward to working with him, even if he is a little bit obsessed with Oklahoma sports…

So yup, that’s my life in a nutshell. I’ve got a new cube, new work schedule, new team and new computer (booyah MacBook Pro!) but I’ve still got the same philosophy and same passion for ministry.

Lets go conquer the interwebs.

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