I Ain’t Playin’ No More

Anyone else tired of playing church? Last week I decided that I ain’t gunna ‘play’ church no more.

This sounds really big on my part. We’ll see if I’ve got it to follow through. Church structure, hierarchy, committees, strategic plans, forms—AARRRRRRG! So when do we actually get around to BEING the church?! You know, CRAZY LOVE, RADICAL PASSION, and BEING NUTS ABOUT JESUS?

I’ve been at Trinity eight years now. Accomplished a lot—from 3 kids to 30 in Sunday School, a $300,000 building project, over a 100 new members (and about the same number having moved on…). Blah, blah, blah.

But when do we burn with fire? When does the crazy passion show up? When do we get sick of spending our time trying to unsuccessfully fill our vacant ministry or leadership positions, rather than encouraging people just go wild for God’s love for the world?!

Maybe it’s not about Trinity Church or the United Methodist Church, but about me. (Sorry you have to suffer being in my head right now).

Maybe it’s time that I—the pastor-- am about crazy love, radical passion, and nuts about Jesus…And then I AM, they CAN, and I’m not a hypocrite in my accusations…

Whoah, dude.