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Sometimes I’m Afraid I’ll Fail

Everyone faces a fear or two in their lifetime …

One fear that I have faced a number of times over the last 50 years has been fear of failure … looked a little different each time

- - - - Fear of not being able to live up to my ordination vows
      - Fear of failing to be adequate enough in my first parish
      - Fear of preaching
      - Fear of starting an independent church
      - Fear of overseas ministry and the unknown over there after communism fell
      - Fear of not honouring the Name of Jesus
      - Fear of pushing too hard and burning out

Here’s one that is still there behind the scenes digging at me on occasion Read more

Sometimes I Feel Completely Inadequate

Have you ever felt somewhat or totally inadequate for a task or a role that you are about to engage in?

In my life there have been numerous times when I have felt inadequate:

- - As a teenager I felt totally inadequate in gym class and track and field days – unable to do what was expected because of walking issues
  - When I went to seminary I felt totally inadequate as I knew little to almost nothing about God or the Bible
  - When I became a priest I felt totally inadequate personally and even more so professionally – there was no spiritual
  - First funeral in small town south of Regina
  - Becoming a husband
  - Becoming a father
  - Becoming a born again believer
  - First time prophesying
  - Planting a new church
  - Witnessing on the streets
  - First trip overseas to Ukraine
  - Working through a translator
  - Even today … some of the things I am called upon to do I feel totally inadequate to accomplish
    - - Writing a series of books comes to mind
        
        Teaching and leading through Zoom

2021 – Living What You Believe

January 3, 2021/1 Comment/in ARTICLES, Resources for Every Believer /by elizabeth

As we enter the first full week of the New Year 2021 my thoughts turn to behaviour and lifestyle.

As a leader I realize that I can’t lead what I don’t live. In other words, my actions can speak louder than my words and nullify what I am saying. As a leader I can’t ask my people to do what I am not willing to first do myself.

As believers we should take the start of a new year to examine what is it we believe as Christ-followers and then see if how we live lines up with what we say we hold to be the truth. Again, often the way we live, the way we speak, and the way we behave can speak louder than what we say we believe deep in our hearts. One contradicting the other. Our talk and our walk must line up. What we believe on the inside must effect and even transform how we live on the outside – in our family, at work, in the community, and even in the church fellowship itself.

This is a question of integrity. Living what we say that we believe. Leading in a way that shows what we truly believe.

We are flawed, weak and broken people being put back together by the grace of Jesus. That is all our God has to work with. Even the apostle Paul, after being transformed by the grace of Jesus, was still in awe that God would use “the worst of sinners to accomplish heavenly purposes” (1 Timothy 1:15).

So, how do we live (and lead) with integrity when we are broken vessels?

Laying Apostolic Foundations in the 21st Century

Laying Apostolic Foundations
in the 21st Century