July 02, 2010
How Can I Keep From Singing?
From of our 2010 Leaders in Ministry Conference in Boston, MA
Here is something of what we are called to do--to learn and to grapple with how to tell our stories, to sing our songs, with integrity and with vulnerability, in such a way that those we are in ministry with will find themselves responding with their own songs, their own stories. It's a scary call in so many ways. Our whole lives, our whole selves, are so full of foibles and failures, and the lives of our churches our no different. We spend--I spend--so much time crafting elaborate structures to hide my whole life from God (unsuccessfully, of course) and from my community (also, ultimately, unsuccessfully). Won't singing our whole lives destroy all of that carefully crafted deception?