Tuesdays are for Monday I had a 7 hour staff meeting ramblings..

Sorry this week’s ramblings and links are a day late, I know many of you had the entire rhythm of your life upset by my tardiness. Yesterday was 7 hour staff planning meeting day. The meeting was good. The meeting was long. The meeting took away my capacity for proper cognitive function. So here you go…

Middle School Drama on the Gridiron

The Brett Favre saga is difficult to make sense of. In some ways I feel for Brett because all he wants to do is play football for the team he loves, that he has lead so effectively, and that he has been loyal to for so long. On the other hand, he brought this on himself. Every off season for the past 3 years it has bee the Brett Favre retirement watch. He loves the drama. He assured them he was done playing, and they had to move on. If they allowed Brett Favre to come back now and reclaim his starting job, they might as well trade Aaron Rodgers because he would never recover from that. Sorry that it has ended up this way, but in the end I don’t feel sorry for anyone involved except for Aaron Rodgers whose entire career is being dictated by his misfortune of being drafted by the Packers. After all this drama, I would be shocked if Rodgers has anything more than a pedestrian career.

The Leadership Market is showing great returns

Every church has its distinctive culture. God works in each place uniquely through the setting and the people who are there. At Christ Church one of the real distinctives is that this is a place leaders are called and trained for ministry. We have had a major hand in developing and sending off  over a dozen pastors in the past 10 years. That really is extraordinary. This is a place where we readily invest our resources in raising up new leaders for the church. There is a huge cost in time and resources associated with it, but we never seem to mind either because it is so important. During meetings yesterday we were talking about this part of our church and it made me feel privileged for Christ Church’s investment into me and humbled by the opportunities I have had to invest in others.

Your New Best Friends

I have not and probably won’t see the movie Step Brothers, however, there is a really funny link where you can insert your friends into a video with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly and they will call their phone. Check it out.

An Old Timey Revival Sort Of

I am going to go and check out the Church Basement Roadshow with Tony Jones, Doug Padgitt and Mark Scandrette tomorrow night in Durham. The whole concept makes me laugh, but I am sure it will be an interesting show and involve some cool discussions. I don’t expect to encounter many new ideas, since I have read a lot of their stuff, but I am interested in the spirit of the gathering. Emergent gatherings have a tendency to go one of two ways for me. They seem to bounce back and forth between this disenchanted and reactionary sessions and the most gracious, Spirit filled sessions of exploring our faith and trying to grapple with the gospel. I am definitely hoping this will be the later.