Monday, January 21, 2008

Valentines Day

Valentines day is just around the corner guys.  Get her the unexpected!  I think we can do a little better than the following story though.   

A wife woke up one morning and said, “Honey, I just had a dream that you bought me a new gold necklace. What do you think it means?”

“I don’t know, but Valentine’s Day is coming soon. Tuesday, you’ll know,” He replied.

A few nights later, she again woke up after having a dream, “This time, I dreamed you gave me a pearl necklace. What do you think it means?”
“You’ll know Tuesday,” He replied.

The night before Valentine’s Day, she again woke up telling him about her dream, “This time I dreamed that you brought me a diamond necklace. What do you think it means?”
“Honey, be patient. “You’ll know tonight.” he said.

That evening, the husband came home with a package and gave it to his wife. Delighted, she opened it–to find a book entitled, “The meaning of dreams.”
 
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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Whyi

Rolf Jenson in his book, The Dream Society, chronicles a rapid movement from the Information Age to the Dream Society, where effective leaders will become—not just knowledge workers—but story-finders and storytellers. He demonstrates, through case studies, how it’s not the best product or service or cause that captures the imagination and catapults an organization forward, but the best story.

As Dallas Willard puts it, “we live in a God-bathed world,” and God’s story can be found all around us in  the hearts of people, where stories begin as dreams. The heart is the conversation room of the Holy Spirit, the place where God plants dreams and visions, and calls us to a purposeful destiny.

To be truly effective in reaching unchurched people it’s important to understand that the Holy Spirit has been speaking, wooing, calling, and inspiring people from their earliest childhood. To tap into someone’s heart, and help them recognize and understand God’s voice, is to midwife true identity and purpose. This can and should be the natural work of Christ-followers who in concert with the Spirit are well-equipped to ‘coax out’ God-given dreams, encouraging the stories, that move The Story on.

Why do you exist?  Study what you are passionate about and what you dream about becoming. 

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