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A Few Lessons from the Few Trials

Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Brian Sparks.
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Of course I wish to go into more detail about the trials at church at a later time. However, why do deacons make better deacons before they are ordained? Its like they make great servants, but once you ordain them, they try to become your boss. Somehow they figure that being servants of the church means being the ones to make sure the staff are doing what they are suppose to.

Out of the mist of this chaos, I found two things about me that has changed my views upon where I minister at. Number 1. I found that I do not like being ignored. I don’t know whether it is my age or my ministry (music-picker-outers don’t know anything) that keeps people from taking input from me seriously. I’m over here screaming about problems that we have and how to fix them, but leaders just keep passing me over because they actually don’t believe churches have changed in the last 30 years. WANT TO REACH YOUNG ADULTS WITH KIDS, I AM ONE AND YOU’RE NOT! Wow this feels good.

The second thing that I have learned from all this was posted in my last post. I am a discipler. I care much more about how the spiritual conditions of my choir members are than their right notes. Unfortunately, I’m getting to the point where I don’t care much about the notes.

So what’s the point of all this? I didn’t just want to get all this stuff off my chest. But the chaos made me want to quit. Yet I endured. This endurance taught me character (Romans 5:3-5). It taught me not just how to overcome trials but personal character like what my priorities are, who God has made me, and what my non-negotionables are. I find that each of these are very important to me but I don’t think I would have found these out if I had never gone through the trials.

Trials teach us a lot about ourselves. Unfortunately, it is the only way God chooses to teach us character. The stuff that is going on at the church is like a bad stomach virus. At first you pray “God, don’t let me be sick.” Hours later you begin to pray “But if I am sick let’s get it on and over with.” So I hope I have learned everything I need to. I really could use a vacation.

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