It is time to feature the fact that I am a Jesus follower. I don’t believe I have ever hidden or downplayed my faith, but I haven’t featured it because I really want to be inclusive.

I believe what I have to say can help people regardless of their faith…maybe that is naive or arrogant…but I believe it. This belief has led me away from featuring Jesus followership in my writing.

Time to be bold!

I believe that a life of Christ followership is the ultimate “more”!

I still want to be inclusive and I hope people who don’t consider themselves Jesus followers will still benefit from my work, but I need to point toward Jesus more explicitly.

I believe I am called to write more about matters of faith and followership, as well as how those topics relate to our lives… particularly our “work” lives.

This does not mean that everything I post will be explicitly about faith, but I pray that Jesus will be clearly present in my work.

I have felt pulled in this direction for at least three months, but during a visit to Des Moines two weeks ago the Holy Spirit was pushing me hard toward the edge so I decided to jump.

 

The Holy Spirit was using two forces.

1st, Lutheran Church of Hope

With all do respect to my pastor at Papio Creek Church and my father who are both wonderful teachers, the message in the video above is probably my favorite “sermon” ever.

In my humble opinion, this discussion of the life in Christ is dead on. Please give it a watch (check out the hilarious fake political ads toward the end).

Key themes that really hit home for me:

Harmony > Disharmony

Inclusion > Exclusion

Hospitality > Rivalry

Jesus Followership > Superficiality

Jesus Followership > Politics

Jesus > Than How You Vote

Jesus > Fitting In

Jesus had time for all people, so should we.

Don’t waste time worshiping false gods.

Jesus wants you to live a meaningful life in Him!!!

Give over your “work” to God!

You were made for more!

Please give this video a watch.

2nd, A Good Friend

My family met up with my friend Alan and his family at church. They then came out in the bitter cold to watch my son play soccer…they brought me coffee…good friends indeed.

We were chatting on the sideline during the match and he mentioned to me that I was an important character in the story of his faith journey. He was wrestling with faith questions in college and we had some amazing talks about faith in Jesus in our dorm rooms.

Our conversation reminded me that my “work”, in the most broad sense, is to point toward Jesus.

Jesus will do far more to help people live more purposeful lives than I ever will.

There are points in every person’s journey where they get to decide who to point toward, I am going to do my best to point toward Jesus.

How about you?

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God bless!