Author: Adam

Hey this is my personal info. My blog, at least right now, is intended for people who already know me, and they know that I am from Northeast Indiana, but for the summer of 2006 I'm chillin out in Tulsa, Oklahoma for an internship. So since everybody on this page probably already knows me I'm not going to waste extra time to say that I'm 22 and I just graduated with my music degree and I play the piano, and have felt called to ministry since I was in 3rd grade. Yea, I'm not going to say all that extra stuff.
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Four Countries.

God wires us differently — that’s why such a thing as “personality conflicts” exist. You might have taken a personality test before — but I’d encourage you to complete a FlagPage. The FlagPage Test is not a personality test, but rather its a test that measures what you love! At the most basic level, the FlagPage shows four basic groups.

Hippocrates saw that there are generally four types of personalities (or combinations of them). This week I’m going to talk about each of these personalities with the terminology used in The FlagPage Test, and in relation to what people love. I will be describing these personalities and loves with the “Country” analogy — everyone’s personality is a country. Everyone has a homeland country, and most people also have an “adopted” country as well, which means they have some characteristics of that secondary personality.  This is a great analogy because Americans cannot understand everything about the South African, Australian, or Jamaican culture (although they all speak English) — and we will have a difficult time understanding someone with a different personality.

This difference in “Nationality” in our personalities is why I want to help explain them. If you understand the four countries, you will do better at understanding other people.

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Cool Runnings at CMI Convention.

My brother and I taught a workshop at the 2007 CMI National Convention on how various types of media can help grow a church. Following the snow theme of the conference, our workshop had the catchy title, “Cool Runnings.” We printed up the outlines in the business center at the hotel (thank God for Google docs!). We had put together a neat chart that could help churches take areas of their media to the next level (it’s certainly not prescriptive but it is great general help for many). This chart is for legal sized paper — which the hotel didn’t have in the business center. Rather than paying out the wazoo at Kinko’s to get this chart printed for our workshop, we decided to post it on my website and tell people in the workshop that they could get it at this website.

HERE IS THAT CHART.

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No, It Wasn’t A Dead Mouse.

For the past several weeks I have had an organic stench coming from my kitchen cabinet. At first I thought I just needed to let the cabinet “air out” so I left the cabinet doors open overnight – but it was still there. I found an open bag of shelled peanuts so I rolled up the bag thinking it might solve the problem. It was still there.

As the days went on the smell got worse and worse, and I couldn’t figure it out. Every time I opened my cabinet I was overcome with this wretched stench. Seriously, it smelled really bad.

Finally I decided to figure it out once and for all — so I started examining everything in my cabinet.
Cans of soup and vegtables? – no.
Crackers? – no.
Peanut Butter?, Rice Cakes?, Ramen Noodles? – no, no, no.
The sack of potatoes way up on the top shelf?

Bingo.

Disgusting does not even begin to describe this sack of rotting potatoes. Slime had been spread through the entire sack — not just any slime. This slime resembled snot – like the kind that explodes from your nose if you have a bad cold and sneeze. As I picked up the sack from the shelf, I heard the slime-snot squishing around in the bag. I nearly threw up right then and there. I put the potatoes in my kitchen garbage… then I emptied that bag into ANOTHER bag and tied it off really good and stuck it in my trash barrel, never to see it again.

That bag of potatoes is how God sees our sin. Repulsive.

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Reputation.

It’s important to have a good one — but you can not please everyone. You should aim to please God.

It takes years to establish, but it can be ruined in seconds.

If you spend years to develop a good reputation, your reputation will work for you.

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Preach It, Perry!

I don’t think I’ve ever found a blog post that I thought was so good that I simply linked to it. Until today. Holy Crap — Perry Noble brought it today in his post about how he does NOT want “Nice Christians.” I found myself literally waving my hands and cheering to encourage Perry as I read it. Too bad he couldn’t see me, and luckily nobody else did because I probably looked like an idiot cheering out loud for a blog post. Go read it.

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The Trinity.

Sometimes when you’re dealing with spiritual things, you can’t define them — they can only be described. Worship, I believe is one of those things. The trinity is another. I’ve heard the trinity described several times in several different ways, but this morning I heard my pastor describe the trinity in a way that I’ve never heard before. I thought it was neat:

We serve one plural God.

What struck me was the irony of “one” and “plural.” God is plural – but not polytheistic. He’s three, but one.

Now that’s unity. We serve a God that is three distinct people, yet is so united that at the same time, He is one. God is united.

Imago Dei. We are made in the image of God. That means we should be an expression of God; in His image. If God is united with Himself in the Trinity, then Christians should be united with each other. This is especially true for the universal Church — the explicit Body of Christ. The Body of Christ should be united as one, as God’s example to us: the Trinity. Where there is disunity, there is no imago dei (image of God).

Hezekiah Walker’s song, “I Need You To Survive” says it best. You can watch the video here. There is no substitute for the communicational power of music and art, so I do encourage you to watch this video in spite of its length. I believe it will touch your heart. Below are the lyrics:

I need you, you need me. We’re all a part of God’s body.
Stand with me, agree with me. We’re all a part of God’s body.
It is His will that every need be supplied. You are important to me, I need you to survive.

I pray for you, You pray for me. I love you, I need you to survive.
I won’t harm you with words from my mouth. I love you, I need you to survive.
It is His will that every need be supplied. You are important to me, I need you to survive.

I Need You To Survive, By Hezekiah Walker

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Life is not a Video Game.

Let me tell you something — I’ve traveled to many places in the country. I’ve been in six other countries. In all my travels and experience, not once have I found an extra life. I’ve looked for extra lives — I can’t find them.

Can you imagine how cool it would be if you actually found and extra life! I mean if you’re ticked at someone on the freeway you could just get angry and flip your car or something. Who cares — you have an extra life, and you would die but then you’d come right back to life and respawn with your car on other freeway.

Yea, too bad life is not a video game.

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1) Salvation.

Okay so maybe you’re stuck in a rut, like maybe porn (if you found this site while searching for porn — its because I wrote this blog post with you in mind and tagged it as such). If you want out of the sinful rut — you want rescued from it. That’s called “salvation.” I am “for” salvation. Please allow me to explain salvation from our sinful nature in four points:

We Are All Sinners. We are all born with a sinful nature. God’s plan for us was revealed to us in the Old Testament law (summarized in the Ten Commandments). We have all fallen short of God’s plan for us. God’s standard is absolute perfection, but no one meets that standard. (Romans 3:23).

The Penalty for Being a Sinner is Death. I’m talking about spiritual death here — eternal separation from God. So this sucks, eh? First I showed that we’re all sinners — and now I say that if you’re a sinner you deserve to die, so that means everyone deserves eternal separation from God — that sucks. Our sin leads to eternal death, and there are no exceptions. Doing good things and being a really nice guy cannot pay the penalty — the penalty is death (aka an eternity in Hell). That is exactly why at the beginning of this blog I said we needed rescued. We need someone to save us! (Romans 6:23).

Jesus Paid the Penalty. Okay so here’s the good news — God will send people to an eternity in Hell, but He doesn’t want to (2 Peter 3:9). God is a loving God — in fact, He loved us so much that He sent His son Jesus to come to the Earth as a man, live a sinless life, and then die. Since Jesus had no sin, he paid the penalty in our stead. Now that’s a loving God. He made a way for us to be saved. (Romans 5:8).

We Need to Take Action. Jesus’ payment for our sin is a free gift — but its not automatic. We have to accept it. Each of us need to believe in this plan of salvation and ask God to come into our lives. We need to call on God to save us and live our lives for Him. (Romans 10:13).

I’m “for” salvation through Jesus alone.

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2) Mentoring Through Relationship.

I am “for” mentoring through relationship. I qualified the mentoring with the phrase “through relationship” because I’ve seen a lot of people try to mentor without a relationship. This works — I just don’t think it works very well. 🙂 Without relationship — the mentor’s challenges will be ignored. Without relationship — corrections have no sting. Without relationship, there will be little to no transfer of “life knowledge.”

I tend to think of mentoring as allowing a mentee into your life; not just getting into theirs. I heard of one adult mentor who was meeting with his teenage mentee at his home when the mentor and his wife got into a fight. The mentee was going to leave to give them privacy, but the mentor (with the wife’s consent) encouraged his mentee to stay and observe how he and his wife worked out their problems. That’s mentoring through relationship and allowing the mentee into his life. That’s a mentoring relationship. Teaching is not effective mentoring, in my opinion.

Now you could easily pass this off as being something for only certain individuals. I think I can actually hear some of you thinking, “Eh, I’m not the ‘big brother’ type of person.” Phooey on that thought! (Yes, I did just say “phooey”). You are the best in the world at connecting with certain people. Maybe that’s children at your church’s sunday school. Maybe its your boss or co-worker. Our lives are surrounded by opportunities to mentor through relationship. It’s easy to be a teacher without relationship. It is very difficult to be an effective mentor without relationship. Read more about this in a previous post of mine where I described how mentoring through relationship is God’s plan for the Church. I am “for” mentoring through relationship.