Over the past 3 months I have learned a principle that has changed my life. I am one of those people who is all about the big picture. The thing about being a big picture person is that you are not necessarily a detail person. I like talking about what it will look like when and dreaming about the future. I am not real big on getting all the minor details in place. The thing that I have learned is that life is culmination of all the details adding up to the big picture. The details are what sets a good thing apart from the great thing, it’s what changes something from ordinary to extraordinary, and it is the difference in a good idea and a God idea.
I have come to find in planting Coastal Community Church that God is about detail. He doesn’t just want us to have a good church service every weekend but a great one. That means we have to plan for more than just some people greeting at the door, good music and relevant teaching. It means we have to think about every sign that directs people, every word that goes on the screen during worship, our follow up on people who come to church, the curriculum we use to teach our children, the way we communicate to our community through our advertising, to the words we speak when we are in front of people. It is all about the details.
This isn’t a new concept either, if you were to read Exodus in the Bible you would see how detailed God was about His first portable church that was planted in the desert. They had to make the temple exact and precise. It was all about detail. I believe that God is looking for people who are about His details. They are looking at what most would think of as meaningless but to God is extremely important. I believe that the details take us from being visionaries to revolutionaries. God is looking for a people who are all about the details, who can take a vision from concept to a reality and be the catalyst for a generation.
- What details are you forgetting about right now in your life?
- Where have you been slacking in life that you know you should be doing but you have just been lazy in?
Lets decide to be a people that are about the details of life!
Don’t forget this detail: SEPTEMBER 13, 2009 Monarch High School 10am COASTAL COMMUNITY CHURCH IS LAUNCHING!