This just bothers me. Is this with complete patience and teaching or just shaming and guilt?
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
What the...?????
This just bothers me. Is this with complete patience and teaching or just shaming and guilt?
A full dumpster
I wish I would have taken a picture of this but I did not. This past Saturday myself and a handful of others orchestrated a garage sale in order to raise money for a new missional outreach called the Alvin Toiletry Giveaway.
I saw this full dumpster before leaving the property and it made me feel GREAT! The lid was popping up it was so full. I see full dumpsters all the time but hardly ever at our church property. See, thing is, our church property has been so seldom used for Kingdom ministry. The only night our church is used by multiple people is Wedneday night at our Bible study. Now we have all been up there for that plus preparing for this garage sale.
Just hanging out with folks cleaning and organizing seemed to fill me up because we were creating community with each other. Even though we were all focused on how we can serve others, it brought those who were serving, closer through the experience.
As I looked at that dumpster it represented all the things that had culminated for the last few weeks of preperation. Loading and unloading my truck bed full of stuff, cleaning out storage, cleaning out the office area, and dumping trash in general. Amongst all the chaos, we also found an opportunity to host a Scottish family traveling through the US as missionaries serving smaller churches or wherever God was leading them. We cleaned there place up and found more trash going in the dumpster.
As I drove away from that dumpster this all raced through my head. I thanked God for the full dumpster. I hope I have the opportunity to fill a lot more dumpsters with the motivation of serving others behind each pile and to see them overflow.
I saw this full dumpster before leaving the property and it made me feel GREAT! The lid was popping up it was so full. I see full dumpsters all the time but hardly ever at our church property. See, thing is, our church property has been so seldom used for Kingdom ministry. The only night our church is used by multiple people is Wedneday night at our Bible study. Now we have all been up there for that plus preparing for this garage sale.
Just hanging out with folks cleaning and organizing seemed to fill me up because we were creating community with each other. Even though we were all focused on how we can serve others, it brought those who were serving, closer through the experience.
As I looked at that dumpster it represented all the things that had culminated for the last few weeks of preperation. Loading and unloading my truck bed full of stuff, cleaning out storage, cleaning out the office area, and dumping trash in general. Amongst all the chaos, we also found an opportunity to host a Scottish family traveling through the US as missionaries serving smaller churches or wherever God was leading them. We cleaned there place up and found more trash going in the dumpster.
As I drove away from that dumpster this all raced through my head. I thanked God for the full dumpster. I hope I have the opportunity to fill a lot more dumpsters with the motivation of serving others behind each pile and to see them overflow.
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