What a technically frustrating day. It sounds almost cliche but in addition to being the youth pastor at our place I am also the "pastor of stuff." We are exploring a new presentation software to replace Powerpoint. I downloaded a demo of something called Sunday Plus and it loaded onto my laptop fine but it kept hanging up on the PC we use in our worship space. The guys at their help desk said "try to reinstall it or maybe it was a bad download." Argh!!!
Anyway, recently the terms seeker and believer have been elevated on my radar screen and not in a good way. They smack of division and when spoken they sound incredibly condescending. Neither characteristic is something we are or aspire as a community of faith. I raised the issue with my Sr. Pastor. And he was in agreement, that came as a large relief. Not because he is some big ogre, quite the contrary is one of the best bosses I 've had in the marketplace or ministry. I guess because they are the words he chose and put on paper to help define what we are all about. His attitude surrounding change is admirable. So how do you change 10 years of culture? I'm not sure yet but I'm glad we are going to give it try.