Day 69 - Rat Funeral

David briefly talked about how they don't want the cart before the horse in regards to structure and management and vision and God's leading. He sees many Christian organizations being led by the management and end up sacrificing their passion. He does not want Steiger to get even close to that as it expands.

Then he gave a talk on the cross and on more values of Steiger and leadership. The cross talk was very passionate and emotional. His main point surrounded on 1 Cor 1 and the foolishness of the cross. Then he began talking on the power of the Cross as talked about in 1 Cor 2. "When you lift up the cross it's like spiritual nuclear energy."

Then his talk on the values of Steiger made these points:

* Do not judge other ministries or organizations.

* Push the borders. A guy David knew was trying to reach out to the local punks in a city and one of the punks told him his rat died. So David's friend said to the punk, "lets have a funeral." The kid got excited and he invited all his friends to the church and had a rat funeral. At the funeral David's friend preached the gospel and many of the punks gave their life to Christ. HA!

* Don't be an arm chair general. Lead by example. Delegation is good but not the key to leadership. It's important to get authority in things by actually doing them. And don't just strategize - do!! It can feel really good to sit in a board meeting and plan but then not actually execute.

* Remember that we are just a small part of what God is doing in the world.