OUR VALUES
April 16th, 2008 categories: Grazing Spiritual Pastures
There are different seasons in people’s lives. During each season, we value things differently (e.g., what’s important to us). We try things in life (put our hearts into things) and, at that stage, we believe what we are pursuing is most important. One season is not better than another. It just a different season. It’s all about discovery.
What we value determines who we want to be with … We are all looking for those we call “Like Kind,” those with similar values to our own. Here’s a list of what we value.
Our Values
We seem to be drawn to people we call “Wayfarers” or “Wayfaring Strangers,” probably because we are wayfarers ourselves. Some traits that describe these wayfarers are:
- Made our share of mistakes in Life
- Understand the Grace of God
- Passionate about Living for Christ and Living out Christ through Ministry to others
- Have tried in the past to find a place in the traditional church … just don’t seem to fit there
- Want community, not church
- Keen awareness of hypocricy
- Don’t want to be a “pew sitter”
- Love God … but want love for Him to manifest differently than earlier in life
- Realize the Goal in Life is to Love God … but recognize the value of healthy relationships – true love for others
- Currently pursuing the “How to” of that
- Want to give life for something that truly matters … in process of discovering it
- In Hot pursuit to discover what really matters in life
- Understand that the best things in life are “Hidden”
- Have thoroughly learned that “it’s not all about me”
- Want to learn to truly live out of a “God centered life” (vs. self centered)
- Are open to listen to the Lord to try a new (or at least different) format of community that manifest all of this
- Want the “coming alive of all” and “all people being significant” to be the goal
- Want the goal be for all to discover the “real” person they are in Christ
- Want the goal to be so “full of Christ” that there is a natural overflow in loving/serving others
- Want to build a community, not an institution
- Recognize that there is a tendency to conform to traditional “church” ways (e.g., worship first, message second, deacons, elders, etc.)
- Willing to be “edgy” and try some nonconforming ways in order to gently resist institutionalizing anything that develops
- Recognize that leadership arises out of “who a person is,” not a title given
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