Learn

As a pastor I think that it gets difficult to not look at other Churches and see what they are doing and see how explosive they are and want to be like them and even be like their pastor's. But as I look at them I don't want to be like them I want to learn from them. God has given them wisdom and insight that He has not given to me and this is why I want to learn from them. I want to be like Jesus, and when I start wanting to become like them I have traded Jesus for a man and this is not a good place to be in my spiritual journey. But I think that we do this with Churches as well. We see a lot of Church hopping within Christians and we want to go to the latest and greatest thing. But when we do that are we making Church an idol and have we lost what is truly important which is Jesus. And so now our identity is in our Church and what we get out of it and not in Jesus and what He can give us.