Learning to Rest

One of the areas that I have been working on is learning to take seasons of rest. I love pastoring and I love to work hard but in seasons past I have tended to go until I run myself into the ground. It worked to a certain extent when I was single but when I got married it quickly became apparent that I was going to have to change (it went to a whole new level when we had our little guy too).

Rest is a clear Biblical principle – God established it when he created the world in Genesis. We see the spirit of it in the law regarding the Sabbath. When we look at the ministry of Jesus we see clearly that he took time to pull away, pray and rest.

We often struggle with resting because we feel that there is ‘so much to do’. We need to remind ourselves of the ‘big picture’ though – that there is a lot to do over our lives and if we do not have proper rest/balance we will never accomplish what we were supposed to.

Here are several great posts on the importance of rest/rejuvenation:

1. The Power of Meaningful Get-Aways (Coach John)
2. Personal Retreats (Joel Comiskey)
3. Sabbath Rests (Rob Campbell)

185,000 Cell Groups!?!

Joel Comiskey blogged recently about a church that has 185,000 cell groups… wow, I love hearing amazing stories of what God is doing. I’m going to be researching this church a little more.

Check out his post here.