pace

I've become convinced that the pace of life for most of us is damaging to our ability to reflect on and respond responsibly to the world around us. For me, May was a month of great transition--a churning of the waters. I've left my part-time staff position at Jenison Christian and have taken on a new venture in the world of graphic design. This is a very different pace of life for me, and I now find that I must apologize to everyone I expected to show up to every single event I organized as a pastor.

What churches should be doing is helping people learn how to find a healthy pace to their lives. Instead, most of our churches are just adding to the problem--providing one more set of dis-tracting events (albeit with the best of intentions) without training a larger set of skills in life integration, discernment, and how to say 'no' to things that are good. I am not sure we have too many among us who can teach us these skills. How will we learn? We will learn them by figuring it out together; stumbling forward and inviting each other to do and be less of what the busyness culture demands, so that we can become more of what the kingdom invites us to become.