“Making your way in the world today takes everything you got. Having a friend to help along the way sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t you like to get away? Sometimes you want to get away… People are all same.You want to go where everyone knows your name.”
As it says in the Cheers theme song, “People are all the same.” Relationships, business, organizations, and churches all have one thing in common: they are full of people. People are great. People are complicated. How do we live with one another and keep moving forward? It requires leadership, culture, and boundaries.
Much of scripture is about people living together for a common purpose. Imagine a place much like Cheers, with one crucial difference: we are working for the Kingdom of God. In the Old Testament, they were working for the Holy Land, “a land of milk and honey,” where they would worship the one God. A land that would allow them to build a community and change the world together.
We aren’t any different than they were. People are all the same. We must learn how to live with one another, care for one another, and build the Kingdom of God together.
As it says in the Cheers theme song, “People are all the same.” Relationships, business, organizations, and churches all have one thing in common: they are full of people. People are great. People are complicated. How do we live with one another and keep moving forward? It requires leadership, culture, and boundaries.
Much of scripture is about people living together for a common purpose. Imagine a place much like Cheers, with one crucial difference: we are working for the Kingdom of God. In the Old Testament, they were working for the Holy Land, “a land of milk and honey,” where they would worship the one God. A land that would allow them to build a community and change the world together.
We aren’t any different than they were. People are all the same. We must learn how to live with one another, care for one another, and build the Kingdom of God together.
November 6Too often, we see rules as constraining instead of freeing, but we all need rules in order to live a good life. Our best life is not the one without constraints, but where we live with the proper constraints. The same thing is true for families, businesses, friendships, and more. We live by unspoken laws, but laws nonetheless. As followers of Christ, leading people requires us first to be led by the law of God.
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November 13Power corrupts. None of us are immune. The instruction of scripture is clear: create accountability that stretches beyond human capacity and invites the presence of God.
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November 20Are we in an exile as modern Christians in 2022? There is temptation to complain about the decline of the church or a world that is hostile to our faith. Daniel pushes us to ask a different question: “How do we thrive in the midst of exile?” The people of God were still called to serve, live, and lead in exile. If Daniel could lead his people in such a crisis, surely we can lead today.
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