Happy Sunday!

We took a team of 20 leaders to Mechanicsville Christian Center for a leaders conference yesterday. Tommy Barnett gave an amazing talk about being a servant for life! His four points:

1. Make your position great, because it will not make you great!
2. Do not seek a title! Do your job and make the title great!
3. Let your title be the RESULT of your WORK!
4. Servants are remembered… not titles!

Here’s what Mr. Barnett was getting at…

So many people think that IF they could just get INVITED into a successful position that they will be successful. He used Pastors as an example of this… and he said that so many Pastors think that IF they can just get invited to Pastor a LARGE and fruitful church, that they can BE SUCCESSFUL Pastors. This is why he said: Make your position GREAT, because IT will NOT MAKE YOU GREAT. Another way of saying this: People MAKE positions… positions DO NOT MAKE PEOPLE!

Tommy talked about his early days of ministry… when he was DOING EVERYTHING. He said that it took him about 30 minutes to lock up the building after services… and one day a young man in his church said, “Pastor Barnett… I don’t want you to have to do that anymore. Please give me the keys and I will handle it FOR YOU… in fact, give me the keys to your car and I will pull it around front and turn on the heat and have it ready for you to go… and I will close the church for you EVERY SERVICE.” Pastor Barnett agreed and the man did this for a few years just as he promised. And one day he wasn’t able to do it… and Tommy Barnett REALIZED: This young man had FOUND A NEED he didn’t even know he had… until that night the young man was not there.

The moral to this story is this: Don’t seek for a title! FIND A NEED, DO THE JOB, and let the TITLE follow your SERVICE!

Let your title be the RESULT of your work! He was explaining that others should DEFINE us based upon how we are living and what we are doing instead of by SOME TITLE we’ve given ourselves or others have given to us. Sadly, too many people get all tripped up on GRAND TITLES instead of GRAND SERVICE. You and I should seek to be known for HOW WE SERVE instead of what we are TITLED.

SERVANTS are remembered, NOT TITLES! So in a world overrun with insecure people, all striving for titles and positions… let us do life differently! Let us be like the young man in Tommy Barnett’s story who FOUND A NEED nobody knew existed… let us SERVE in such a way that we are remembered for HOW WE LIVED AND WHAT WE DID! Let us not seek for great positions… but let us MAKE OUR POSITIONS GREAT!

I hope these brief notes give you an adequate taste of that delicious message!

Today @ Destiny Family Center: Ryan Huffer is giving message 5 of the sermon series: You’re Better Than This! (Keep Your Chin Up!) It’s going to be SUPER… so come in person or catch the LIVE webcast right here at 10am!

Please say a prayer today for my father in law, Merle Wall. He was given a very bad report from doctors yesterday and needs a miracle to keep living. His faith is strong… such an INSPIRATION to his family! I ask for you to join us in believing that this will not be his end… that he will defy these odds and live on with the testimony of his healing. Thanks you guys… Emily, Coree, Heaven, and I sincerely appreciate your kind prayers! Have an amazing Sunday!!