A few days ago I heard a quote from my friend Norm McCarren who leads Operation Mobilization New Zealand's Off the Grid discipleship and mentoring programme. Norm is a world-class leader with a heart for developing disciples of Jesus and challenging college-aged students to fully engage the world with the gospel of Jesus through adventure experiences that stretch them physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
He is known to say when his and his wife Christy's team members begin to complain about the weather: "There is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather." In our church this past week we had the opportunity to see if this is really true. I won't get into all of the details but on Sunday morning we had no air conditioning in our worship space (which is basically a triple-wide mobile unit) and our sound board was hit by lightning at some point during the week and was fried. Neither of these situations made for an ideal Father's Day. But I was reminded, "There is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather." If this "storm" had not blown we would have missed at least three things: 1. We would have missed seeing people raid their own houses of fans and portable air conditioning units to try and keep the space cool. 2. We would have missed seeing a team of people get creative as to how to provide sound for worship. 3. We would have missed seeing how people respond in crisis--(and I use that word loosely for I know that it is not a life-threatening issue since neither AC nor sound systems are required to worship.) Not a single person complained about the heat and only a few noticed any issues with the sound. Most people still stayed in the worship space talking as usual after the service. In short we would have missed a spiritual growth test and an evaluation of where we are as a church--a people called and created to be salt and light. I think we passed the test with an A+! You know what's exciting? It looks like we'll get to take a test in perseverance this week because neither the AC nor the mixer is repaired yet.
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