12 March 2008
You’re right! — Now what?
Hey, Boomer?
So you’re big.
You’re influential.
You’re powerful.
You have all the potential in the world.
But will you dance?
Remember all the dances you went to growing up? Unless you’re baptist. If you were anything like me, you went to those things with the full intention of dancing, but you spent most of the time standing against the wall.
Trying to look cool.
Where, in fact, were 99 percent of the people at these dances?
Standing against the walls.
Why weren’t they dancing? It’s a dance for goodness sake! DANCE!
Nope. Nothing doing. We didn’t want to look like idiots.
But we were pretty good armchair quarterbacks. We would sit back and critique (make fun of) the brave ones who were out there dancing—their style, technique, dance partner, whatever. But no matter what we said about them, they always had one thing on us.
They were dancing at the dance.
We weren’t.
Life is the great dance. How are you spending it? Against the wall as a critic? Or on the dance floor having the time of your life?
I want to help Christ followers dance the dance they were made for. Our upcoming series, “One Month to Live” is all about learning to dance and having the courage to get out on the dance floor and live like to the fullest.
You don’t have to spend your life up against the wall. It doesn’t have to be that way. Make plans on joining us for the next 7 weeks as we learn together what it takes to live life passionately and with great purpose. If you don’t live around here I hope you’ll listen to the podcast each week and gain the courage to live all out through what you hear there.
Bottomline? When it comes your time to dance…
DANCE!
2 Comments currently posted.
Kristina Sanford says:
Heather Hoag says:
Well… I am NOT a boomer. I’m a gen Xer but I DEFINATELY danced at the dance. I was one of the first out there. I LOVED to dance. Lately I feel like I am not “dancing the dance” because I am raising young children but then i remember who gave these children to me and I realize that I really am still dancing. there are just fewer people in the room.
Rob,
Wow, What a series. I picked up the study guide and the book on Sunday and have been reading and thinking and praying and thinking. This is going to be a great inspiration. Just the amount of time I have lost is coming to light in my still new and changing walk.
This really has taken me a gasp. I am a fairly new believer getting to know my walk for the 1st time and starting to feel comfortable coming out of my shell. I have only been working on this all of my life and it has just been over a year that I was saved and I am still apprehensive about groups and my serious lack of knowledge of the Bible and the teachings that I have yet to get to.
One Month to Live is more like one moment when I think of it. Just in two days time there are changes coming in my heart and in my daily activities and thoughts. It really is a redirection of Focusing on the LORD. I am SO looking forward to this!!!!
Thanks For the Dance. It is definately time to get off that wall that I was standing on and finally do something, many things, everything in the name of JESUS.
AMEN AMEN AMEN