Day Six: The Fine Pearl

Aug 27, 2005 Print This Post

//MOOD: Sore
//ITUNES: “Better” – Hoobastank

Matthew 13:45-46

�Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a pearl merchant on the lookout for choice pearls. When he discovered a pearl of great value, he sold everything he owned and bought it!”

Four Questions

What can I learn about God?
He is building a Kingdom that has incomparable value.

What can I learn about people?
Not much about this in this parable other than the fact that some will recognize the value of the Kingdom and do everything possible to be part of it.

What can I learn about me?
It’s interesting the consider the things I find valuable. My reputation, my family, my Powerbook. None of these is even in the ballpark of the value of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Connect the dots.
Not much today. Just a bit of awe at how amazingly out of my league the things of God are. And even with that, God has invited me to be a part. So good.

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Growing up in the Lansing area, I wanted nothing more than to get out. My exit strategy included a complex mixture of schemes for an urban church plant, iProducts, and an elaborate Bollywood car chase scene with zombies and catchy techno music.

As a 40 year old man, I find myself entrenched in the Lansing area at a church I love (Riverview), with 4 kids I love more (a high schooler, a junior higher, a middle schooler, and an elementary schooler), and a wife I love the most (Grace).

Instead of planting one church, I dream of helping hundreds get started without ever leaving my home base. I still love my iProducts and use them as tools to help lead and teach the thousands who attend Riverview. And when no one is looking, I blare the techno music and send my unimpressive resume to casting agents for Bollywood zombie films.

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