Impact

Broken Bread

Imagine with me.

You’re an actor, and your dream is to land a role on the Ultimate Stage – a place where your talent can be on display for the entire world to sit up and take notice. A role that can lead to even bigger and better things. You don’t have to be the star. You just want to be able to show your star power.

The script: Interesting. It’s a modern retelling of a famous scene from the Bible – the time when Jesus fed about 4,000 people with seven loaves of bread and a few fish.

You’ve been summoned to a callback audition and informed you have a spot in the play. That’s all you know.

Can you imagine the excitement? The anticipation you’re feeling? This is what you have dreamed for, wished for, prayed for, and endured a lot of questions and unhelpful go-be-a-teacher suggestions for.

You. Are. Going. To. Broadway. [click to continue…]

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arrow puzzle“You have a role in all this,” Dave told me.

“This” is the church he now serves as pastor, the people he loves daily and weekly, the legacy of faith he is building in this eastern New Mexico town.

Dave went on (this is my paraphrase):  “You were there at a time in my life when I thought ministry was over, that I had nothing left to offer, and that nobody wanted me.  You helped me see the possibilities of how God could continue to use me.  So every time the Lord does something good here, you have a fraction of the action.”

I was humbled and blessed by his insight.  But I also know I am not alone. [click to continue…]

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