Amanda Conner

This weekend we hosted 12 services or events across our campuses. Each one unique and memorable with so many incredible stories of people’s lives being encountered by Christ.

It still remains my deepest treasure to lead such a wonderful group of congregations as one church. Their hearts to serve inspire me & their generosity of spirit speaks for itself.

This weekend so many said YES to Jesus! Others were healed & even others finally finding home.

As I finish this profound weekend…I leave my day with this thought “God doesn’t need the perfect, the sleek or the most powerful He just wants the willing.”

May I never lose my willingness to trust just a little bit further….

“Being good at thinking can make you worse at rethinking” Brene Brown

The ability to rethink takes courage and practice. It’s in our nature to believe ourselves. We carry bias no matter how much we believe we don’t.

The dexterity to be adaptable, emotionally available to others, and willingness to be wrong are all developed fruits not automatic.

For those of us who continue to support the evolving of Christ in our behaviour and decisions here are three thoughts.

1. Being vulnerable is about better understanding our emotional availability. If you lack the stewardship of the reality that emotion plays a key role in all areas of our lives…you will often withhold your true self in protection and display the false self as the lead.

Understanding we are created in emotion isn’t giving permission to ungovernable emotional behaviour. Instead it’s the deep rooted whole person showing up undivided and unfractured at every opportunity.

2. Great leaders are not just exceptional thinkers but rethinkers. Jesus was continually helping His disciples rethink their initial (most often bias) thoughts. He helped open their perspective to each other, His work, and their world as it was not as they wished it to be. Rethinking is a skill developed by discipline with the active learning process of the Holy Spirit.

3. Being the problem solver can feed our pride. Problem solving though often a positive trait in mankind is also dangerous to the one who wants to help others but never be known by them. These people find their emotional connections to purpose in solutions which is unfruitful. Thoughtful people do not use bringing solutions as a form of self instead they bring themselves which just by presence is often solution enough.

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