ambitious slackers? a long time ago i shared about my ambitious slacker-ness. jonathon and i labeled ourselves this way a few years ago. basically we get together and come up with all these great ideas (trust me, they are great ideas). problem is, we come up with so many "great ideas" we cannot possibly see all of them to fruition. it started, i think, with a monthly worship service that highlighted unique & different cultural worship styles (gospel, bluegrass, taize', etc).. ummm.. that never happend.. eventually those conversations led to "insearchof" our contemplative worship ministry. i can't even remember all the ideas, some have been realized, some not.. one was shot down.. labyrinths in my front and jonathon's backyard's. girlfriend and wife, respectively, shot those down. so what does an ambitious slacker do now?
church planting!! who would have thought. this conversation actually got started two weeks ago when jay, jonathon, and myself got together. we talked about an arts and worship service based out of one of the local coffee shops. that got shot down, i think, continued conversation led to jay making some dream job plans and our eventual takeover of an almost dead united methodist church turning it into an emergent/missional congregation. that conversation is still out there, but today in my tuesday b'fast meeting with jonathon and friend sally, this conversation took another turn. i drove by a church that is for sale and was like, hmmm. funny i never noticed it before, it's on my daily commute. when we talked about this prior church idea, i proposed, why not try to buy an old property and turn it into an ecumenical community centered on prayer and spiritual practices? what transpired afterwards was a ton of fun, joking and some seriousness. once our meeting was coming to a close, i asked "do we want to pursue this & see how far we can take it?" a resounding "yes." so now jonathon and i are gathering tomorrow at murphy's loft in sylvan park @ 12:30 to go through our church planting books to gather a quick idea of what we might be getting ourselves into. are there any ambitious slackers out there that want to join?
i don't know what might come of this, but it is only positive to dream big and turn your imagination over and over to try and make dreams happen. this may not work, that's okay. i think of our ambitious slacker-ness much like that of an inventor, create a number of things, be remembered for just a few. "insearchof" has been a great ministry for this area bringing new forms & concepts of worship to local churches here. side note: most folks just know of insearchof as jonathon and gavin, that's okay.
so, claim your ambitious slacker-ness. unite with us in dreaming big and imagine how to create them. ambitious slackers unite!!
