The Bitter Sweet

     Complaining is the easy part,

its actually doing something that sets apart the mice and the men. When my wife and I became apart of a church plant, it was because we wanted to see a lot less talk and a lot more action (sing it with me.) Once again it’s easier said than done. Sure we have “trophy’s” to show of our Success’s, but I have come to realize that it’s not about the trophy’s but rather the failures that mean the most. Those times of success can only be contributed to what we learned in our failure. Failure almost acts as our Proxy. I know it seems weird that I would treasure failure over success but I have learned so much through this concept. In this day and age we like to rate success as to how big our Church is, how many chairs are filled, and how many programs we can cram into 52 weeks. You hear dialogues that revolve around “building Community” yet when it comes down to it no one is willing to pick up the phone and start. Its such a false dichotomy that has been created. 

     We all know humanity is messy,

and we all know spirituality is even messier, you affix the two together and you have quite the undertaking to look forward to. Because of this messiness we are subject to we have allowed seeds of fear to be planted within our heart and soul thus allowing our response to what really matters be diluted with complaining and back biting. It truly is a bitter sweet. So to conclude my thoughts I would say that complaining enables you from going out there and failing forward to achieve success. In other words lets stop complaining and lets do something, even if that means failing.