Focus
Friday, March 7th, 2008At Riverview, our mission is “to make sacrificial followers of Christ who make sacrificial followers of Christ who go.”
That’s the focus of everything we do. And yet, it is so easy to get sidetracked. I thought of this when I was reading this post by Seth Godin. He posted this picture and thought:
I drove past a hobby shop yesterday. It’s hard to make out the awning, but it says, “Hobbies, Trains, R/C Models, Coffee, Lottery.”
Bit by bit, on each declining day, it became easier to become more average, to add one more item, to sell a few more lottery tickets or another cup of coffee…
When this starts happening, the answer is not to do it more. Instead, it’s worth a full stop. Is this what you set out to do? Is compromising everything going to get you to a place that was worth the journey? Wouldn’t it be smarter to just stop selling trains and do something else (lottery tickets, even) but do it really really well.
It made me wonder what we are doing as a church that doesn’t specifically hit the mission of “making sacrificial followers of Christ who make sacrificial followers of Christ who go.”