We, the people of God, are carried forward by a vision of the future that constitutes our mission. When we are caught up into it, and pursue it, we are changed, and we go on to enact history.
From The Forgotten Ways, by Alan Hirsch
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People outside of the church are often surprised at how long it takes to write a sermon. My pastor friends are surprised at how short of a time I spend writing a sermon. I heard a quote from Jerry Seinfeld this week that nailed it for me. It takes all of the time.
Global Leadership Summit 2011, Part 2: Leonard A. Schlesinger
(Might have something to do with the fact that I’ve become an entrepreneur in the last year and a lot of what he said was really promising and exciting, vs. the usual song you hear when you are starting your own business that has a repeating chorus singing “you will fail, you will fail, you will fail.”) … I think they would have benefited a lot from just focusing on the next month rather than thinking they had to discover their lifelong vocation at 22.
When you fail at something, like say, running a coffee filled backpack business, you learn something that nobody else knows.
When you fail at something, like say, running a coffee filled backpack business, you learn something that nobody else knows.