Slowly building momentum...

I realize I talk about THE WELL a lot but haven't posted many images (really) that communicate the stage we're at.

The one above (by my friend Chris Stacey) captures what our Sunday morning worship environment looks like.  Truth be told, Chris' shot makes the room look quite a bit 'cooler' (on-screen) than it does in-person.

But the point is, it's starting to look like something.

The black backdrop you see and the runner and the staging behind me we install each week. The screen and projector and lights we purchased and had permanently installed. Took us eight months or so to pay it all off. The reason was, the room we meet in is a rehearsal hall, and a very homely one at that.  The problem with that is people don't really relax into an ugly room and if they're not relaxed they typically don't experience worship or preaching in the way in which they would if they were.

So you gotta' work with what you got.

That's transferrable to your life and work, no?  

Work with what you got.  You might not have the most awesome room to begin with, so make it as good as can and keep improving things as your ability to do so increases.  We made do with a crappy folding screen until we could afford the snazzy big one.  Our sound system is still small and simple but it'll do. We didn't do much 'art design' in the space to begin with and still don't do THAT much, but as we added skilled people with the will to use their skills to help grow the church, we plugged them in and got them doing things that we could actually DO.

Baby steps.

Do the best you can at every stage along the way and work with what you got.

The challenge is to not stress out or beat yourself up along the way for being as 'bush league' as you are (at any given moment along the journey) so that you don't rob yourself of the hope you're going to need to keep going.

'Cause, if you don't keep going, you're never going to get where you want to be going.

Right?

T