What a great message

Brian I hope you don’t mind. I’m re-posting your comment. Thank you for walking with us through this.

“I really understand envying those people in the schools and those that get to spend the majority of time with the students each week. I also realize that when I do have time to spend with the students, I am usually busy doing all the church program stuff that needs to be done. I look like the dad who is always too busy to really spend time with his children who to be quite honest could care less what he’s busy doing for them, they just want to spend time with him. God posed a question to my heart a couple of days ago. “Do you really really care about these students, or do you really really care about being a great youth pastor?” I don’t know if that resonates with anyone else like it does to me, but I really feel like if I care about these students I would take the time to re-write my job description and make sure that most of my time is spent in their worlds and not mine, where I can actually “live love” with them. Many of our churches might not understand that because we’ve forgotten and neglected the power of “living love” and gotten too busy doing stuff for the church instead of being a part of the church. In the same way we are busy doing stuff for God instead of being a part of Him and letting Him love through us in a way that does far more than we could ask or imagine, greatly exceeding the work of our minds and hands in all of our programming and being culturally relevant. These all can be important in our world of ministraaaa, but none even remotely as important as being in their lives, knowing who they are and “living love” with them.
I look forward to an amazing tour. Thank you so much for being faithful. ”
Brian Hinna

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