Urban Legends and Swatting Gnats
To understand this post fully start out by reading this short blog entry by Pastor Steven Furtick.
This morning as I read this post I felt like it could have been me writing it. As a leader I am often consumed with every detail and sometimes, not always though, those details are gnats. You wouldn’t want a cloud of them forming around you as you lead, but a few here and there are hardly even noticeable, and not worry about them will keep you sane. That’s easy to say but hard for a perfectionist like myself to put into practice.
The one area leaders of the church cannot afford to have gnats flying around is their teaching. If we’re consumed with discussing the meaningless and hypothetical then we’re going to wreck the car that is our church’s overall mission (that is if your mission is to being people near to Christ through a committed relationship with Him).
This past Sunday we started a new teaching series at Horizon called “Urban Legends – Debunking Spiritual Myths”. In this series we are confronting some tough issues and unbiblical perspectives that have become popular opinion in our society. Will it be a difficult series? Yes. Will it upset some people? Most definitely. But, if we are able to avoid presenting “bubble gum” version of the gospel to the world then at least we know we’re not swatting at meaningless gnats.
