I Have a Dream!

Today, I sent a thank you note. If the recipient is reading this, you'll get it in the next day or so. She is the person who quietly, every week, makes sure there are fresh offering envelopes and sharp pencils in the chairs. She does this, I suspect, because she truly sees this as a ministry. I hope she does. I do, and I know the Lord does. In fact, my wife Carla and I were talking about how meaningful it is to walk into a church where it is obvious somebody cares. I can hear the lonely and despairing person saying "If the people care about how the pencils and envelopes look, perhaps they'll care about me."

I have a dream. I dream that Cornerstone will be the kind of church where everything is seen as ministry and a chance to touch somebody with the love of Jesus. I have a dream that we will never be satisfied with "good enough." I dream that every person who serves as a greeter would get up that morning on fire to do the Lord's work. I dream that they might see how much potential they have to be a friendly welcoming face to a guest, and that they can be the very first person to enter into some short, friendly dialogue with them.

I have a dream. I dream that we will have nursery workers who see that valuing children and valuing their parents is a way to show both the churched and those yet to be just how much Jesus makes our lives different. I dream that we show up early and stay late. I dream that we see each child as a gift to us and treat them as if they were our very own.

I have a dream. I dream that those who make coffee and prepare the snacks for our little kids will see the difference they are making. The church is the last place on earth where one is not welcome to have a cup of coffee. Not here! I dream that our people making coffee will "whistle while they work" and pray over each pot and each little serving of Goldfish...that the Lord will bless every one who receives.

I have a dream...well you get the picture. We are well on our way. But I will not rest until my dream is fulfilled: That EVERYTHING we do, we do for JESUS. And that we do it in such a way that He is pleased, and others recognize it!