I'm part of a new leadership team that is starting at our church to support and strengthen our ministry to children. My wife and I are also working to launch a family-inclusive small group that aims to equip ourselves and other families to have vibrant and productive God-focused lives together, including discovering and practicing the most fruitful ways to have family devotional time, family scripture memory, and generally live a Deuteronomy 6:7 life with our children.
So there are two topics about which I'm thinking a lot right now, and will likely blog about in the near future:
1. Church team productivity. I deeply desire for our team to be fruitful for God in every sense. Part of the spiritual call to leadership is to steward well the time and energy God has given team members. We want our work to matter for the kingdom. We want to be wise and skillful for God, leveraging any available tools and resources to accomplish the work He has given us. And we want everyone on our team to be strengthened by their service.
2. Productive avenues of teaching and discipling children. Our church has adopted a phrase to describe our mission: "To make more and better disciples." How do we do that more and better as a family and as a church with our children?
I'm thankful that God has shown me and my family some of what he wants us to focus on in 2009. In pursuing these callings, part of my personal discipline needs to be discerning how much will be useful to share here. The questions I have to ask myself before opening an editor to compose a blogpost remains the same: 1. Could posting this thought/observation/link help me or someone else be more fruitful in God's kingdom? 2. Will posting distract or strengthen me from actually doing? We'll see how often both of these answers are yes, but I feel energized by God's leading and the synergy I'm sensing in what he is calling me, my family, and my church to right now.
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