Being on this side of the church is weird. It’s strange to know that 99.9% of the difficulties that a pastor faces, the obstacles that take up so much of the time have so little to do with spiritual health and well-being of the church.

song selection, money, personal preference, opinions, opinions, carpet color, paint color, the wrong colors, the right colors, the pastor’s clothes aren’t right, the pastor’s wife’s clothes are great, but the kids…

Just give me Jesus. I want people to know Jesus the way I know Him. I want to know Jesus more. I want people to teach me how they know Jesus. I want to pray for people who need Jesus; I want to see miracles. I want to learn. I want to teach. I want the church to be the church. I want Jesus to be proud of us, his children.

I want it to be simple. I want people to practice forgiveness when they’re offended and seek forgiveness when they mess up.  I want to see people who are desperately in need of salvation find it through our precious Jesus.  Let church be simple.