Craig Groeschel (from lifechurch.tv) shared insights from his life, leadership and new book, IT.
He left us with 3 main questions:
* What are we doing that we should stop doing?
* What is God trying to show you through your greatest limitation?
* What has God called you to do that you’re afraid to try?
He ended with this Franciscan Prayer:
May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain in to joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.
I want to start praying for a discomfort with how the world is, discomfort b/c none of my neighbors are experiencing life in Christ, discomfort at a % of my church community not fully following Jesus, discomfort with the areas of own my life not honoring God or fully surrendered to him, discomfort b/c consumerism that affects me everyday... the list is too long to.
And I hope to be foolish enough to believe that God will use me to make a difference in this world.
What are you too comfortable with?
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