A white man was driving from Montgomery to Birmingham when he was carjacked. The perpetrators took everything he had, including the clothes he was wearing, and beat him unconscious, leaving him nearly dead on the side of the road …
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If racial reconciliation is not a part of your spiritual formation then it will never be on your spiritual radar for how you understand the gospel and your part God has called you to play in it concerning racial injustice.
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Hey Willow Creek—I can’t wait for you to meet Faith Stevens. I don’t know another human on the planet who is more relational and encouraging. She loves people deeply, and those who end up in her friend circle feel very blessed.
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We can’t just acknowledge that the world around us is broken, we must engage and use the God-given influence we have to live out a better way.
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It was our first week in the office together, and Dave Dummitt and I were already talking about what succession might look like at Willow Creek. We both acknowledged we are in temporary roles. Hopefully, it will be 15-20 years before the next transition. But however long it is — it will eventually happen.
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I think authenticity is a commodity that people crave now more than ever. The more human, the more raw, the more we lean in. And the opposite is true as well—the more polished and scripted and produced…the harder it is to relate.
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Rebuilding Willow is not the goal. The goal is to continue the building of a thriving local church where people can take their next step toward Jesus; where those far from God can begin to find their way back; and where the love of Jesus becomes real for people as their human needs are being met.
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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens; building teams, collaboration, and developing leaders, these are a few of my favorite things.
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I wonder how many people are actually enjoying this forced stay-at-home season so they don’t have to feel guilty saying no or not showing up. We’ve been known to ask way too much of people. They keep trying and trying, doing and attending, but then life catches up and they feel like they can't ever keep up with our expectations. They feel deflated.
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