STILL LEARNING

I frequently tell people that when I started pastoring at age 20 it was dead easy - because I knew it all! Almost 36 years later, I am drawing everything I can from all the good sources available because at age 55 I know nothing!

That may sound like an over-modest generalization, but the real point is this - church evolves, it is a living body. So it is always changing. In Bible College I learned how to do a ton of things, but that was then and this is now. The world has changed and church life has too. Our message never alters, but how we communicate it must always be getting finetuned or we will be relegated to irrelevance and obscurity.

So I'm sitting in a hotel here in sunny Southern California getting ready for the first day of Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Church Conference. God has a major plan for Grace Church and I am determined that we reach our full potential. We've come a long way, but there's so much further to go - and I'll take all the help I can get to guide us on the journey.