Don't get stagnant
Recently spent some time with Pete Richardson, who is a good friend and consults with tons of ministries, not for profits, and businesses. Pete brought up a great analogy between growing as a spiritual leader and fly fishing, ultimately the inflow and outflow of life. For those who love to fly fish, you know that stagnant water is bad. The best water and ultimately the best fishing is in areas where water is moving and stays pure and filtered- areas that have a current and water flow. Areas of a river that don’t have great inflow and outflow tend to get stagnant, dirty, polluted and unpure.
Similar to our life as a follower of Christ and spiritual leader. How are you creating rhythms in your own personal development, and creating a great inflow and outflow system that keeps you fresh and protects against becoming stagnant? All of us are aware how quickly we can become stagnant- in personal development, in Scriptural study and engagement, in community, in prayer and spiritual disciplines, and many other areas of life. It is important that we are constantly purging the things that are impure, and flowing in to our lives new things that are fresh, clean, and will purify.
man, i love that you are posting more these days. great nuggets of insight and wisdom. i’m also digging Jeremie’s Giant blog http://www.giantperspectives.com/
how do you stay fresh without being trendy? (she asks while wearing an argyle sweater). i guess i am balancing the fear of one of those people that buys every “fresh” idea hook line and sinker (haha) vs the fear of staying in the same stream for the rest of my life.
Thanks for that! Very encouraging!
Great illustration Brad.
Didn’t know you liked to fly fish. We need to hook up some time and do a little fishing!
Great analogy and excellent reminder for us leaders.
I just found your site and subscribed. I’m a big Catalyst fan (5th year this year) so I’m sure I’ll love your blog. Don’t let me down!