I wrote this post before I went home yesterday.  I’m reminding myself and you…we are being defined this weekend.  Life is moving on.

I want this question to rock my world Saturday morning.

How am I loving people today God?  Jesus, how is my heart…my love…my sacrifice…growing today?

I think if I ask that line of questioning enough, people might see more of Jesus in me. 

All of this came out of our discussion this week on the blog.  Thanks folks.  I hope you are surfing off each other’s challenges and encouragements this weekend.  You make me rethink so much!

This one was a toughie.  Not that we’re shooting for best picture at the Oscars or anything, but just because I really enjoyed the discussion.

Here the line of the week, written by you on this blog.  This week’s is from my friend Dan Scott.  Sorry if it’s a paragraph, but I thought it was worth quoting:

I know that I create great programs, design my butt off, and can
communicate from the stage like the best of them. But if that is what
I’m known for, I’ve failed in ministry.

I want to be known as the guy who cared for people and went above and beyond to make sure they felt loved.

Ouch.  I picked it Dan, because your point is too close to my story.  I can be great at what I do, but suck at love.  Thanks for helping me focus on what matters.

No substitutes allowed.  Love is the real deal.  Jesus, help me love more.

Something is going to define your life and mine.  It will.  That’s what I’ve been driving at this week on the blog.  I know that when I die, my kids are going to stand around and say many things, but inevitably it will get reduced to a sentence or two that begins this way: "Dad was…."

The reason I love to think about the now is because we still are able to change and influence what our lives will be about.  The sad part is that too many people don’t think about what their life will be about.  We just kind of live it, and in the end, we hope it will be good enough.  And I know my drift (when I’m not intentional) is to make my life about things that matter less, not more.

So what’s it going to be about for you?  Who do you want to be?

We were asking that question collectively as the church this week on the blog (I hope at a minimum you read this)- what do we want to be about?  I’ve been to too many churches where in the end, the church is dying because it was about the whims, wants and preferences of the members and not enough about Jesus and the world He died for. 

Your life will be about something.  So will mine.  And our collective life will be about something too.  We all end up being about something.

i have completely dug the great comments on the blog this week.  But before we leave this…any parting thoughts on what you want all of this to be about?  Any last thoughts on what you want your next decade, four decades, six decades, to be about?  Or what you want the church you are a part of to be about?