This is the one that was made before you even showed up. This is the one that sets the agenda, determines the goal and establishes the frame. The decision before the decision is the box. When you think outside the box, what you’re actually doing is questioning the decision before the decision. That decision is [...]
This is the one that was made before you even showed up. This is the one that sets the agenda, determines the goal and establishes the frame.
The decision before the decision is the box.
When you think outside the box, what you’re actually doing is questioning the decision before the decision.
That decision is far more important and much more difficult to change than the decision you actually believe you’re about to make.
-Seth Godin
Over the past several months I have had the opportunity to collaborate with John M. Bailey of NAMB on creating a church planting center (CPC) here in northeast Ohio. What exactly is a CPC? Church Planting Centers are an environment where multiple diciples are intentionally selected, developed, and sent to make disciples which results in [...]
Over the past several months I have had the opportunity to collaborate with John M. Bailey of NAMB on creating a church planting center (CPC) here in northeast Ohio. What exactly is a CPC? Church Planting Centers are an environment where multiple diciples are intentionally selected, developed, and sent to make disciples which results in new churches. CPC’s can be a church, a church planting school, a seminary, or a organization that has a vision for church planting.
The CPC we are working on developing here in our region will be called PlantOhio (www.plantohio.net)and will focus deliberately on the town and country areas of northeast Ohio. These areas have not necessarily been neglected when it comes to church planting, but they have not had any momentum to propel them forward. We will be looking to start house churches as well as more traditional church plants. We will enlist, train, resource, and deploy church planters all across this region over years to come.
In the coming weeks I will be focusing 100% of my energy into PlantOhio as we seek God for church planters, church partners, and persons of peace who are praying for new churches in one of two dozen communities. Working with us on this project is George Bannister of Steel Valley Association, Kevin Litchfield of Cleveland Hope, Gary Odom of State Convention of Baptists in Ohio, and John M. Bailey of NAMB.
Keep us in your prayers!
Today the Bridge Church leadership team and I shared that I would be transitioning out of the role as Lead Pastor of Bridge Church in the coming weeks. This transition will take place as I follow and pursue an open door the Lord has put before me. In 1998 God began to move in my [...]
Today the Bridge Church leadership team and I shared that I would be transitioning out of the role as Lead Pastor of Bridge Church in the coming weeks. This transition will take place as I follow and pursue an open door the Lord has put before me.
In 1998 God began to move in my heart regarding church planting. It was about that time that I was assessed at the highest score possible as a church planter by the State Convention of Baptists in Ohio. Our family has been blessed to been involved in re-launching a church (Lake Ridge), sponsoring a new church (Life Brand Cowboy Church) and planting a new church (Bridge Church) as a North American Mission Board missionaries. During this time God has not only opened doors for us to be involved in new works, but He has also revealed to me that I am gifted with apostolic leadership. In other words, I have been gifted in gathering and starting new churches, not to necessarily pastor them. In the very near future (August 1st), I will be transitioning from Lead Pastor of Bridge to being a regional church planting catalyst for three associations in NE Ohio. We will be leaving Bridge Church in the capable hands of a godly leadership team who are guiding the church through a transition of pastoral leadership.
In the geographical area I will be concentrating on, there are approximately 3.8 million people, which, represents twelve counties and represents one-third of the population of Ohio. In this area there are only ninety-seven Southern Baptist churches, one church for every thirty-nine thousand people. It is estimated that 90% of the population in many of the towns and cities in this region are lost without Christ. Within this region, there are three major metropolitan areas and thousands of squares miles of rural areas with towns and villages. We are working with the North American Mission Board to create a Church Planting Center in NE Ohio that will focus specifically on town and country church planting(rural). I will be responsible for identifying, assessing, and training/coaching church planters for this region. Part of my responsibility will be to help the church planter develop partnerships for their individual church plants. We believe God is at work to bring about a movement of salvation in this region.
Unfortunately this undertaking will not be fully funded as it is not in the budget of Bridge Church, our association or the state convention to do so. Bridge Church will be one of our partners. The North American Mission Board will possibly provide some funds as well for this position, but that is still yet to be seen. We will need to secure the financial support of other partners to allow me to work at this ministry on an ongoing basis. If you would like to help in funding this work, please call me at 440-796-8050 and I would be glad to share how you, your church, or denominational agency can help. If you would like to see the full plan and prospectus for this opportunity click here.
As I close this post, I want to ask you to pray for our family as we yet take another step of faith. We don’t know where the money will come from, we do not know the church planters that God will bring to us, nor do we know the people we will be reaching, but God does. I am excited by this challenge as we reach out to areas of Ohio that are not reached.
Feel free to contact me with any questions!
I was recently chided by a friend (Patrick) for not having any recent posts. Look for many coming up beginning Monday, June 28th.
I was recently chided by a friend (Patrick) for not having any recent posts. Look for many coming up beginning Monday, June 28th.
Too often, it seems, this attitude is missing from teams, organizations or the community. It’s missing because people are quick to opt out of the ‘we’ part. “What do you mean, we?” they ask. It’s so easy to not be part of we, so easy to make it someone else’s problem, so easy to not [...]
Too often, it seems, this attitude is missing from teams, organizations or the community.
It’s missing because people are quick to opt out of the ‘we’ part. “What do you mean, we?” they ask. It’s so easy to not be part of we, so easy to make it someone else’s problem, so easy to not to take responsibility as a member of whatever tribe you’re part of.
Sometimes it’s missing because people disagree about what ‘it’ is. If you don’t know what you’re after, it’s unlikely you’re going to find it.
And it’s missing because people confuse cynicism with realism, and are afraid to say “can”. They’d rather say ‘might’ or even ‘probably won’t’.
Just about everything worth doing is worth doing because it’s important and because the odds are against you. If they weren’t, then anyone could do it, so don’t bother.
Product launches, innovations and initiatives by any organization work better when the key people agree on the goal, believe that they can achieve it and that the plan will work.
Do we have a cynicism shortage? Unlikely.
Successful people rarely confuse a can-do attitude with a smart plan. But they realize that one without the other is unlikely to get you very far.
Count me in. Let’s go.
-Seth Godin
My spouse is the former Julie Ann Smeenge and we were married on May 25, 1981. For those of you suffering from math deficiency, that is almost twenty-nine years. We were just kids when we said the two words that we really didn’t understand then and sometimes still can’t comprehend today. I was nineteen and [...]
My spouse is the former Julie Ann Smeenge and we were married on May 25, 1981. For those of you suffering from math deficiency, that is almost twenty-nine years. We were just kids when we said the two words that we really didn’t understand then and sometimes still can’t comprehend today. I was nineteen and Julie was twenty when we vowed our love to each other.
I wanted to honor my wife today by writing about how wonderful a lady that God blessed me with. We met in college while taking an accounting class which was as exciting as watching grass grow on a hot afternoon. Julie though was a different story. She wasn’t boring like the class we were in, as a matter of fact I saw her as a challenge. She already had a boyfriend, but she was a pretty little thing that I started taking a liking to and finally got around to asking her out. After a lengthy courtship(three months), we both decided we wanted to spend our lives with each other. This is the Cliff notes version of our courtship.
Julie worked at Western Sizzlin Steak House as a waitress and I worked at Hardees as the biscuit boy (I still have the recipe for those biscuits, email me if you want it) while we both attended college. We got a one bedroom aprtment in west Knoxville and began to live our lives together. As a new married couple, we played tennis together, went swimming in the pool at the apartment, and were with each other as much as possible.
Not long after we were married, possibly a year, something wonderful happened that set the path for our lives over the years even to this day. I had been a nominal Christian at best during my teenage years… wait, my Christianity was non-existent during those years. I had been raised in a Christian home and made a profession of faith in Jesus at the age of nine, but like so many children who do so, I had no idea of what that meant. Back to the story. My Dad had been asking me to come to a good old fashioned revival and I agreed to go. That night God gripped my heart and I decided then and there to allow Jesus to become the Lord of my life. That meant I was going to give up control of running the show. After that service, I went to where Julie worked and told her that I had something I had to tell her when she got home that night. Nothing like leaving your spouse in suspense! That night I told what had happened and how God had changed my heart, and it was like “okay, good for you.” After that I thought we should start attending church and we began to attend the church I grew up in and after about three months Julie accepted Jesus as her Lord and we began to serve together and have been serving since.
My wife is the most wonderful woman I know. She has given birth to two of the lovliest daughters ever to walk the face of this planet. Julie has given herself away in serving God and serving the people of the churches I have pastored. She is a person who doesn’t like the limelight and is a back stage kind of worker. As a pastor, she is my best asset as she has been by side in the good times and bad. Because she is not an out front person, she has been criticized by some people who really don’t know what she does. Ask anyone who knows her and they will tell you she is a go-getter who is not afraid to get in and do the dirty work of ministry. She has always been that way. After graduating from college, she went to work for Martin Marietta in a mail room. By the time she resigned from Lockheed-Martin fourteen years later, she was a supervisor in their IT department, supervising twenty-eight people! A slacker doesn’t get that kind of advancement. She is the typical wife and mother who goes over and above the call of duty.
But there is something you need to know about Julie Calloway. She is a wife that encourages me and is a true model of the wife being the help-mate that God wants for every marriage. She understands her role as a wife and mother and accepts it and through that role seeks to serve God and please him. Whant a woman! I love her dearly.
One last thing about this wonderful lady that I love so much today, she loves another man more than myself. His name is Jesus.
I love you sweetie!
…are we stuck in High School? I had two brushes with higher education this week. The first was at a speech I gave in New York. There were several Harvard Business School students there, invited because of their interest in marketing and exceptional promise (that’s what I was told… I think they came because they [...]
…are we stuck in High School?
I had two brushes with higher education this week.
The first was at a speech I gave in New York. There were several Harvard Business School students there, invited because of their interest in marketing and exceptional promise (that’s what I was told… I think they came because they had heard that Maury Rubin would make a great lunch!).
Anyway, they asked for my advice in finding marketing jobs. When I shared my views (go to a small company, work for the CEO, get a job where you actually get to make mistakes and do something) one woman professed to agree with me, but then explained, “But those companies don’t interview on campus.”
Those companies don’t interview on campus. Hmmm. She has just spent $100,000 in cash and another $150,000 in opportunity cost to get an MBA, but…
The second occurred today at Yale. As I drove through the amazingly beautiful campus, I passed the center for Asian Studies. It reminded me of my days as an undergrad (at a lesser school, natch), browsing through the catalog, realizing I could learn whatever I wanted. That not only could I take classes but I could start a business, organize a protest movement, live in a garret off campus, whatever. It was a tremendous gift, this ability to choose.
Yet most of my classmates refused to choose. Instead, they treated college like an extension of high school. They took the most mainstream courses, did the minimum amount they needed to get an A, tried not to get into “trouble” with the professor or face the uncertainty of the unknowable. They were the ones who spent six hours a day in the library, reading their textbooks.
The best part of college is that you could become whatever you wanted to become, but most people just do what they think they must.
Is this a metaphor? Sure. But it’s a worthwhile one. You have more freedom at work than you think (hey, you’re reading this on company time!) but most people do nothing with that freedom but try to get an A.
Do you work with people who are still in high school? Job seekers only willing to interview with the folks who come on campus? Executives who are trying to make their boss happy above all else? It’s pretty clear that the thing that’s wrong with this system is high school, not the rest of the world.
Cut class. Take a seminar on french literature. Interview off campus. Safe is risky.
Have you noticed that common sense is not so common. It is actually a challenge to find people who have good old common sense. A lot of smart people are not too wise. They may be educated but they don’t have wisdom. They may have all kinds of degrees but they’re a wash out with relationships. It’s not a [...]
Have you noticed that common sense is not so common. It is actually a challenge to find people who have good old common sense. A lot of smart people are not too wise. They may be educated but they don’t have wisdom. They may have all kinds of degrees but they’re a wash out with relationships. It’s not a matter of what you say with your lips but a matter of what you live with your life. Not a matter of your words but of your works. Not so much the diplomas on the wall, but your disposition that really shows how wise you are. Wisdom is applying the knowledge you have to every day life in building better and stronger relationships. Wisdom is applying that knowledge to your life in order to make a positive impact on howyou live your life in a proper relationship with others.
Wisdom Is Shown Through Our Life
It has nothing to do with your intelligence. It has everything to do with your relationships and your character.
“Who is wise and understanding among you. Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in humility that comes from
wisdom.” James 3:13
There are two sources of wisdom. One is “worldly” in nature the other is Divine in nature. One comes from below the other comes from above. If you are going to live a better life you must live life with the Godly wisdom that’s from above.
Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.”
A Lack Of Godly Wisdom Causes Problems
James 3:14-16 says: ”If you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart don’t boast about it and deny the truth. Such `wisdom’ does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, even of the devil. For where you have envy and selfish ambition there you find disorder and every evil practice.” Lack of wisdom causes all kinds of disorder and problems, and chaos. Do you have confusion in your home? Do you have chaos at work? Is your life a mess? If you can’t get it all together you lack wisdom. It causes all kinds of problems in our lives.
How can I know if I’m wise?
James in v. 17, lists the characteristics of wise people. “But wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace
loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.”
Pure means uncorrupted, authentic.
Integrity. If I’m really genuine, if I’m wise, I’m not going to lie to you, I’m not going to cheat you, I’m not going to manipulate you, I’m not going to be deceitful. I’m not going to try to take advantage of you. I’ll be a person of integrity.
Because all relationships are built on trust and respect. If you don’t have honesty who’s going to trust you? If you don’t have honesty who’s going to respect you? You have to have integrity in your life.
I won’t make you angry. Wise people work at maintaining harmony. You ever met someone who is always arguing, always looking for a fight? I heard about one guy who was so argumentative he would only eat food that disagreed with him. If I’m smart, if I’m wise in relationships, I won’t compromise my integrity and I won’t antagonize your
anger.
Proverbs 14:29″A wise man controls his temper. He knows that anger causes mistakes.” How many of you have ever done something stupid in anger? Anger causes mistakes.
“Wisdom is considerate” and ”considerate” means “mindful of the feelings of others“. James says, wise people are considerate; they don’t minimize other people’s feelings. I don’t have to accept them but I can understand them. James says if I’m wise in relationships I will not minimize your feelings. I’ll be considerate.
A wise person can learn from anybody. He’s not defensive. He’s open to reason. He’s not stubborn. He’s willing to listen and learn. “Wisdom is submissive”. This word is used only one time in the New Testament. It doesn’t really mean submissive. It really means reasonable, willing to listen, willing to be open to ideas and suggestions.
Are you a reasonable person? Can your kids reason with you? The Bible says if you’re wise, you’re reasonable. You’re open to suggestions. “Don’t confuse me with the facts; I’ve made up my mind. When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.”
Proverbs 12:15″The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.”
“Wisdom is full of mercy and good fruit.” Do you jump on people every time they blunder, every time they make a fault and fumble it? Do you always use everybody in your family as the butt of your joke. That’s dumb. Wisdom is full of mercy. I won’t emphasize your mistakes. Do you ever let people go, or do you keep hounding about their past mistakes? Wisdom is full of mercy and good fruit.” Good fruit is kind actions, it’s something you do. You don’t just show sympathy. You don’t just say, “I feel for you… You brought it all on yourself.” You do something about it. You take action. It’s a kindness. It’s being a doer of the word. A mark of a wise person is they don’t try to hide and disguise who they are. “Wisdom is impartial and sincere.” The King James say’s without hypocrisy. It means to be honest and sincere. It means to be straightforward, right on. James says if you’re smart and wise, you’re not phony. You don’t wear masks and try to be something you’re not. Be yourself, don’t try to be something you are not just to impress others. Proverbs 28:13 “You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins
How do I get wisdom? How do I become one of those wise people in relationships so that I have that peace that everybody is talking about? Do I just make a New Year’s Resolution — Today I’m going to be wise! No. This is the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge comes from education. Wisdom comes from God. To get knowledge you look around. To get wisdom you look up. Knowledge comes from reason. Wisdom comes from revelation. Knowledge is something you learn. Wisdom is a gift.
James 1:5 “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God.” Wisdom is a gift from God.. “Ask of God who gives generously.” He loves to give.
Colossians 2:3 NLT “The secret is Christ Himself. In Him lie hidden all God’s treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
It’s all wrapped up in a person, Jesus Christ. If you want God’s wisdom get Jesus in your life. You invite Him into you life and say, “Christ, think Your thoughts through my mind and say Your words through my mouth. Help people through my hands. Love people with my heart. And put Your wisdom in my mind.” The wisest thing I ever did was give my life to Jesus Christ. That’s where wisdom comes from. When you get God’s wisdom in your life, day by day, as you allow Him into your life and develop your character, you’ll find your relationships getting better and better.
Maybe the title of this post grabbed your attention and you wanted to see the lies that are in the Bible. I guarantee that there are lies in the Bible, but they are not spoken by God, Christ, the apostles or the prophets, but the Bible is full of lies. The first lies can be [...]
Maybe the title of this post grabbed your attention and you wanted to see the lies that are in the Bible. I guarantee that there are lies in the Bible, but they are not spoken by God, Christ, the apostles or the prophets, but the Bible is full of lies. The first lies can be found in the first book of the Bible, Genesis. Lying started right from the beginning and continues today.
For example:
• It’s a good thing you came in today. We have only two more of those items in stock.
• I promise to pay you back out of my next paycheck.
• Five pounds is nothing on a person with your height.
• But Officer, I only had two beers.
• You made it yourself? I never would have guessed.
• Go ahead and tell me, I promise I won’t get mad.
• So glad you dropped by. I wasn’t doing a thing.
• You don’t look a day over forty.
• The baby is just beautiful.
• Put the map away. I know exactly how to get there.
• And of course, the three biggest lies: I did it. I didn’t do it. I can’t remember.
The majority of lies that we find in the Bible are perpetrated by Satan. Satan spoke lie after lie to Eve and to us today:
➢ It’s all right to doubt God and what He says Genesis 3:1
94% Of America reads their Bible but 38% believes the Bible is not 100% truth
➢ Convinces us that sin doesn’t have consequences Genesis 3:4
➢ His lies make us delusional (can’t see the truth for the lie) Genesis 3:5
You Can Be like God!!!!
WHAT MUST I DO TO TRUST GOD? This is the most important issue in your life. There are other important issues, but this is the most important one. But if you miss the most important question , “Who am I going to live for?” that has eternal implications. Heaven and hell are in the balance. This is the question of purpose. You’re going to live for someone. You’re going to live for the approval of the world or the approval of your boss or the approval of a spouse or someone else or for yourself. Or you’re going to live for God who made you and made you for a reason.
You’ve got to start by committing your life to Christ. What does it mean to commit my life to Christ? Jesus made it so simple, nobody could say it was too hard to understand. He said, “Here’s what you do if you want to be saved and commit your life to Me. You first believe God raised Christ from the dead (that’s what Easter is all about) and then confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.” Circle “Lord”. The word “Lord” is an Old English word for “the guy in charge, the CEO, the boss, the manager, the director.” God wants to be the director of your life. He wants to be the manager of your life. He has a plan for it.
Every commitment that you make in your life has a cost, a price tag. It has a benefit and a cost. And you have to look at that commitment and say, “Is the benefit worth the cost?” Every time you make a keep a commitment, you’re growing mature. You’re growing character, building maturity in your life.
What’s the cost of following Christ? You give up control of your life and put Jesus Christ in charge. You say, “No longer am I going to go out for my plans but I’m going to say `God, I want to fulfill the plan You put me on earth for. I want to be the person You want me to be. I want to do the things You want me to do.” That’s the cost and it’s very clear and it’s very up front.
What’s the benefit? In the first place, you get all your sins forgiven. Second, you get power for living. Third, you get a purpose in life. Fourth, you get heaven when you die. A pretty good deal. You’ve got to settle this first issue. If you haven’t done this yet, do it today. Open your life. Say “Jesus Christ, I open my heart to You. I want to commit myself to You the rest of my life.” Do that. But that’s just the foundation. Once you’ve committed your life to Christ there is so much more that God has in store for you.
Satan’s main attack on Eve was getting her to doubt the Bible, the Word of God.
2 Samuel 22:31 ”As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless.” If you believe that the Bible is basically a good book, but it has errors and some of it can’t be trusted as accurate, then you’re going to have a hard time following what I’m about to say. If you doubt what the Bible says, then you doubt God. And if you doubt God then you doubt that Jesus is is Son, and if you doubt that Jesus is His Son, the you doubt that Jesus is the only way to heaven, and if you doubt that Jesus is the only way to heaven, then you doubt if you’re going to heaven, and if you doubt that you are going to heaven, guess what,you probably won’t go to heaven. Isaiah 40:8 “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
By Reading It Daily
By Living It Each Moment
Matthew 4:4 Jesus answered, ”It is written: `Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
By Sharing It With Others
1 Timothy 4:13 Until I get there, read and explain the Scriptures to the church; preach God’s Word.
I can’t say enough about this one. How many times have you done something really stupid and later you think, “I should have asked so and so their advice.” It happens time and time again all through our lives. When we are kids we think our Dad is the smartest man in the world, there [...]
I can’t say enough about this one. How many times have you done something really stupid and later you think, “I should have asked so and so their advice.” It happens time and time again all through our lives. When we are kids we think our Dad is the smartest man in the world, there is no one smarter! When we become teenager, we start to think that Dad doesn’t quite know everything. In our twenties, we realize that Dad still does have some smarts. When we reach our thirties, it is obvious, Dad really was/is smart!
It hasn’t been hard for me to realize that there are lots of people out there smarter than me, my Dad was one of them and so is my wife. Wives and Moms are the most underappreciated species on the face of the planet. They are filled with wisdom, grace, mercy and when need be, judgment. Both of my parents have passed on and I often wish I could call my Dad up on the phone and ask for advice regarding situations and life issues. James Calloway was such a wise man to have a eighth grade education. Without a shadow of a doubt my Dad’s wisdom came from his walk with God and the friendship of wise men in his life.
You might be thinking, “What good does it do to get counsel if you have already decided what to do?” That is the point. You have decided the direction you need to take. What you are seeking to do at this point is listen to men and women who are godly and are focused on growing God’s kingdom. These people are not hard to find. There will be hopefully at least one in your church or your family or circle of friends. These people will know hear your heart not your ideas. They will be excited to see you excited and probably be able to help you refine the details of the vision you are about to implement.
It is no secret that people are here to help you through life, not to hinder you, because you have been around some real knot heads. God created us to have a relationship with Him, but also to have relationships with each other. Two heads are better than one and three heads are even better than two! There are times when people give advice without you asking and there are times when some advice isn’t worth listening to. Again, this is why it is extremely important that any counsel you receive, lines up with the teachings of the Bible. Do not be afraid to get other Christ followers involved in helping you discover God’s vision for your life and putting it down on paper and helping you implement it. You can’t go wrong with people who give you godly counsel, “Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.” I advise you to seek counsel from those who know God’s vision for their life and can share it very clearly with you.
You may be tempted to shortcut this area of seeking godly counsel, but I would not recommend that for your own good. Almost everyone has either read or heard about the story Job in the Old Testament. Job was a man who loved and respected God and was God’s friend. He was a very successful businessman, had a great family, and the respect of friends and associates. Satan approached God and attributed Job’s success and love for God only because God had blessed him greatly. Satan believed that if God would allow him to test Job, then Job would buckle and thus prove that his allegiance to God was only apparent when God was blessing him. God gave Satan permission to test Job. Satan could touch everything that belonged to Job, except his soul! Job lost his servants to invaders, lost all his livestock to calamity and theft, then his children were killed in a freak storm, and then he is struck with boils all over his body. Job’s wife gave him counsel to curse God and die. He had three friends who come not to comfort Job, but to blame Job for the predicament he is in and Job cried out in amazement that no one had a good word to give him. That is until God arrives on the scene and explains to Job that He is Sovereign, (knows what is going on and has a purpose for it) and that there has been a purpose to what has happened. What does Job do? He prays for his three friends who provided him with unwise counsel and when he does, God restores all that he lost plus more. When you are seeking God’s vision for your life, be sure you surround yourself with those who can and will provide godly counsel.
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