I’ve taken an official leadership position in my church community, Third Way (and here’s where our blog has moved to). This is scary to me. Ever since I had first considered being a youth pastor just after I graduated high school and witnessed both my youth pastor and head pastor(both people very dear to me and two of the holiest men I knew) get unjustly attacked, leadership in church freaked me out. Leaders are under microscope and God even tells us how they are judged more harshly! Anything goes wrong, it is the fault of the leaders(actual or not). So I accepted this not without waiting to hear from God and weighing what it’d cost me.

So far we have had three meetings and we have discussed copious issues and have been turning over our vision like a farmer with soil. What calms me and continues to fuel my hope is the clear desire of this team to listen, to the Holy Spirit and to the voices of our community. Love is our center, Jesus is our center. We remind each other of this!

Simultaneously, rehearsals have seemed to double(days and nighst, bleh) and I have had to fight for time the last few weeks to spend with Heather. I am super excited for what we are doing in Black Label Movement(Woyzeck Project in the fall), but in the midst of this our leadership team has been meeting. Three times. We are moving slowly, but we are building on a perfect cornerstone. And second only to how I get to love and serve Heather, I feel like I my role on this team is some of the lasting and important work I am doing currently. It is exciting!

This weekend we have had leaders from REBA PLACE meet with us. Finding out the kind of community they have become and their advice and encouragement for us roots my heart further into our baby community. Their way of life fits snugly into what Jesus tells us is best for His people. It is Kingdom… here.

Greg Boyd came to our first meeting and the advice he said he couldn’t stress enough was to be praying and listening leaders. It is important that we don’t get too caught up in logistics and issues, and that we seek the lead of our Helper.

What is comes down to is that we are servants. Jesus is the example. And I think what is most exciting about all this for me is how it reminds me how I depend on Him. I can rest in Him and if follow, I have nothing to worry about.