301

This coming Sunday I'm getting a chance to teach our 301 class which is all about finding purpose and significance through ministry. It focuses on spiritual gifts (we all have one). Meanwhile, I'm chipping slowly away at an older book called "Training of the Twelve". This book is all about leadership development from the greatest leadership guru of all time...Jesus Christ. It’s all about the 12’s spiritual formation. As I read the book, it occurs to me that spiritual gifts are sometimes hidden and must be revealed or unleashed. I'm thinking of a sculptor who can look at a block of marble and see inside some incredible masterpiece but only through a painstaking process of chipping, sanding, grinding can that masterpiece be revealed. I’ve found that I haven’t always been open to that kind of shaping because it doesn’t always feel good to find out what you’re not good at or gifted in. Anyway, this Sunday should be fun. I’m hoping to learn a little bit more about myself and those I’m leading. Come if you can.