I have this friend
who spends a lot of money on his hobby.
He collects vintage, third party, and current Transformer toys. He has hundreds of the little plastic dudes,
and has been collecting for almost thirty years. Although he knows he should save all his extra
cash to pay off debts, sometimes he just can’t resist buying the latest toy, or
surfing ebay for a rare find.
Ok, that friend is
me.
I admit that I have a
problem. But I have loved Transformers
since I was eight years old. I still
have some of those original toys. And
although sometimes I know I should save my pennies, it just goes to show that for
better or for worse our values drive us.
Have you noticed that
we make decisions in life based upon that which we value? If we value intimacy we will devote ourselves
to pursuing it, sometimes in unhealthy ways.
If we value success, we will go for it, and sometimes we get swallowed
up by that pursuit.
Not all values lead
to pain. Just misdirected values, or ones
we don’t moderate.
At Knox Presbyterian Church,
Midland, we have six values that define who we are as a congregation, and what
we will go after. We value:
- Jesus and his
teachings
- authentic Biblical
community
- spiritual maturity
- making disciples
- culturally relevant
ministries
- basing all we do in
love of God and one another
It is our hope that all of our ministries
will be driven by these six core values.
So what are your values?
-A
