Something that has been vital to us as we continue the church planting journey is allowing people to speak into our lives.

Today that “person” was my staff. Here was the scenario.

I get everywhere extremely early. As a result, I was getting to our meeting location 15-20 minutes earlier than everyone else was supposed to be there. As a result, trying to be “a servant”, I handled some of the set-up in our room, etc. Is that a problem? Well actually, yes.

I was taking up an opportunity for someone else to serve and partner with us to reach this community. After two weeks we had more volunteers than we knew what to do with. Part of that was my fault. So after two weeks they have had enough and suggested that I not get there until much later and concentrate on doing what only I can do.

So what am I going to do? I am going to listen to them and to the guys at Elevation who have been telling me this for the past several months. Lesson learned!