Ever wonder if you are who you are supposed to be? Wonder if you are fulfilling all of God’s desires, walking in His plan, furthering His cause? Found yourself trying to find ways to stay passionate about life, ministry, family, and God? I do all the time. Whoever said “life is a journey” wasn’t joking. Our pastor spoke to the entire staff for 3 weeks on passion. This was one of the most influential leadership/personal growth lessons I’ve ever heard. As a creative person passion is very important. It is our well in which we drink stimulating thoughts and ideas, it is our fountain of creativity, the birth place of that “project” we are working on right now.
Here is a couple notes and quotes from this teaching.
- My passion for God is what keeps me sane; my passion to see people come to know God is what keeps me motivated.
- Your passion is greatly affected by your perception of how you feel God views you when you make a mistake!
- Passion is reborn when we see who Jesus is and what He has done for us.
- Perfectionism is not a substitute for excellence.
- Don’t allow work to be work, work is ministry, everything is ministry. Ministry is the root of all we do as ministers.
Passion is the breathe of our creative lungs. You lose your passion and your creativity becomes taupe. As worship pastors, graphic designers, web designers, artist, and musicians we are only as good as the colors we paint.
Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.
(But I actually mean, “I agree.”)
I’m trying to mull through the junk to get to what God has for me in these areas right now. Right before your post I realized something that I realized before:
If I wasn’t doing what I do for God, I wouldn’t be doing it at all.
I love your designs btw. I still believe you’re better at video than I am.
The only thing wrong is that you don’t have ‘videographer’ in that list at the bottom, but I can forgive you for that.
Jon,
Great thoughts, I’m in a place the last week where the passion has been here and there for fleeting moments, all-too-consumed with too many other distracting things.
This is a great reminder!
For the Kingdom,
Fred McKinnon
http://www.fredmckinnon.com
http://www.theworshipcommunity.com
Landon – you are right on dude. and about the video stuff, I don’t think so. It has been incredible doing ministry with you. you are a creative guru. thanks for all you do for HT and 180remix.
Fred – like always thanks for reading. and yes I wrote this on the heels of being distracted myself. 1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed…..but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. Sometimes it’s up to us.