Be specific, vision, and exercise
Don't let the title of this post scare you. I think its important.
Ok some ideas.. for things to happen productively you have to have a vision of it beforehand. You create in your mind this goal, this idea of what you want accomplished. After having a clear goal in mind, the next step is to put it into exercise. Put the effort into getting the desired goal you want. It is a basic rule of reaping what you sow. But you have to know what you want before you can go after it.
This rule applies to all areas of life, but I want to apply it to CRU. What we need in CRU is vision. We need people in CRU who have a vision for wanting to make a difference and have CRU as a resource for doing this. We need people (like Matt Luna and others) who have a desire for wanting to be used and wanting to do things. The first thing we need is vision. Lets establish that.
The next thing is casting this vision to others. Getting people on to the idea of what you want to do. Getting people involved who have hearts for this. For anything to actually work in the long run, you will NEED support. People who want to help. People to encourage when things don't work out exactly the way you wanted it to. People who are committed.
Then, it is actually exercising the vision. Putting things into effect. You caught onto the desired vision, now you want to actually implement it. Its the actual work. What are ideas and vision, if it isn't actually put into use? It's great to have fantastical ideas, but if you don't actually do anything with those ideas what is going to happen? Nothing.
It's great that we meet up for lunch everyday. I think its great that CRU has events and frisbee. But if we aren't talking about what we want (vision) to come of things, we are just meeting. Their is no agendas other than seeing your friends, and its not necessarily accomplishing anything. If we want non-Christians or just other people in general to come into our group, we have to talk about that first. Say, hey.. this is what we want. Be specific. Then tell others about it. Then do it.
Ok some ideas.. for things to happen productively you have to have a vision of it beforehand. You create in your mind this goal, this idea of what you want accomplished. After having a clear goal in mind, the next step is to put it into exercise. Put the effort into getting the desired goal you want. It is a basic rule of reaping what you sow. But you have to know what you want before you can go after it.
This rule applies to all areas of life, but I want to apply it to CRU. What we need in CRU is vision. We need people in CRU who have a vision for wanting to make a difference and have CRU as a resource for doing this. We need people (like Matt Luna and others) who have a desire for wanting to be used and wanting to do things. The first thing we need is vision. Lets establish that.
The next thing is casting this vision to others. Getting people on to the idea of what you want to do. Getting people involved who have hearts for this. For anything to actually work in the long run, you will NEED support. People who want to help. People to encourage when things don't work out exactly the way you wanted it to. People who are committed.
Then, it is actually exercising the vision. Putting things into effect. You caught onto the desired vision, now you want to actually implement it. Its the actual work. What are ideas and vision, if it isn't actually put into use? It's great to have fantastical ideas, but if you don't actually do anything with those ideas what is going to happen? Nothing.
It's great that we meet up for lunch everyday. I think its great that CRU has events and frisbee. But if we aren't talking about what we want (vision) to come of things, we are just meeting. Their is no agendas other than seeing your friends, and its not necessarily accomplishing anything. If we want non-Christians or just other people in general to come into our group, we have to talk about that first. Say, hey.. this is what we want. Be specific. Then tell others about it. Then do it.
sean,
i think you are absolutely right. frisbee and lunch are wonderful, but mostly in the realm of social benefits. it's good, important stuff but doesn't do a whole hell of a lot except validate us and let us have fun... of course, i'm more guilty of this than ANYone else; but we'll work on it. good post man.
Posted by
MW Rice |
4:45 PM
Michael,
I'm guilty of this as well. Im writing this post because its a problem i have as well.
Posted by
Sean Raybuck |
6:39 PM