Just got home from San Diego after hanging out with a bunch of pastor types. The denomination scheduled 8 prayer gatherings across the US with no speaker, agenda or program. They capped each summit at 200 clergy but was unnecessary because no gathering was that large.
It was facilitated by Daniel Ketchum, Tom White and Dan Copp. Tom facilitated and initiated the time by declaring us to be "off duty". As pastors we all have tendency to take charge, lead, make transitions, teach and talk even without the prompting of the Spirit.
Even after the admonition to wait on God and then submit, defer and prefer one another, as soon as the floor openned it was like the kid's boardgame hungry, hungry hippoes - all vying to eat the marbles and win.
We were hungry to find a word, give a word, look good, lead, get something out of it and we missed God. There was the crazy lady singing off key, the young and brash man wanting to show off so he could climb the ladder and the old man trying to make us believe everything is just fine.
The question was posed after 8 prayer gatherings for the Church of the Nazarene are we more pessimistic or more hopeful for the denomination. One of the facilitators lamented..."slightly more pessimitic".
Jimmy Farley
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- I'm a mid-thirties pastor who thinks it's all about Jesus and the church is hurtin' and I love my family and I get angry when I'm lonely around people and get energized conversing about truth and am impatient with comfortable believers and at home with non believers who believe and I'm discovering my faith is not a period but sometimes an exclamation point and sometimes a question mark and always a dot dot dot... Become a friend on FACEBOOK.
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