Miracle Gro — Directors Cut — Leadership Math

Today God just rocked my world as I had the oppor­tu­nity to preach on what the great­est unrec­og­nized truth’s of his scrip­ture.  God grows things.  That it.  Period.  End of story.  Meth­ods, Philoso­phies, Min­istry plans, strate­gic ini­tia­tives check your ego at the door because it don’t mat­ter if God aint grow­ing it.

This truth requires our depen­dence.  We have no con­trol over it.  We can try and man­u­fac­ture it, but the thin veil of our efforts will quickly be dis­cov­ered in the body count of burn out.

One of he things that unfor­tu­nately did not make the final cut on today’s ser­mon is the real math of God’s work to grow.  We mea­sure growth by sto­ries.  That is our math among lead­er­ship at MCChurch and I pray that is the math wher­ever you find your­self.  You see mar­ket­ing can make num­bers, big givers can pad num­bers, and nice build­ings are nice, but the real math is in the sto­ries of God’s work among the peo­ple He is impact­ing for the glory of His King­dom.  When our Church’s are filled with the exploits of God’s King­dom, the other things will fol­low as God gifts. And we thank God for those gra­cious gifts because they are all from Him, and Him alone.

So cel­e­brate the sto­ries my friends.  Tell the sto­ries, find the sto­ries.  Because the work of God is found in the sto­ries of real lives impacted by His love