I love nothing more than to tell the story of actionchurch. It pumps me up to tell the vision for York County that we have been given. The last few days, though, I have gained so much from listening:

• Listening to the stories of an older church planter who made 22,000 phone calls to gather his first crowd…(even though it might get you “run out of town” by 22,000 angry people today-it worked then and his church is still going strong!)
• Listening to men of God with tremendous records of success share some of their “failures” to encourage and warn “newbies” like me.
• Listening to guys ten years younger than me who already know ten times more than I do about leading a church.
• Listening to God who is urging me to do even more listening…

In the “Spirit” of Listening- I’ll shut up now.

Here’s a shot from my hotel bathroom. Yup, that’s an ashtray with a no-smoking sticker in it and a lovely “faux marble” counter top nearly covering the toilet! How many freakin‘ non smoking rooms in this hotel have “no smoking” ash trays? How many have the counter top half way over the toilet? How come no one ever asked “why do we go through the trouble of putting stickers and ash trays in non-smoking rooms? How come no one ever asked… “Hey boss, these new counter tops sure are swell…but won’t they make it kinda difficult to actually use the “facilities”.