Love jesus and do what you want

Before we drifted off to sleep last night Jane reminded me of this great quote from Lance Ford. We heard him talk at a Healthy Reproducing Churches conference in January 2006 in Champaign, IL. I remember when he first said to "love Jesus and do what you want," I was a little unsure. But, after thinking about it... if we love Jesus, then we will be doing what HE wants. And how can we go wrong with that? So I think that's gonna be my new mantra: Love Jesus and do what you want.

I thought for sure that I had blogged about it on here, but after a search and no luck, I finally found where I had written about it on another blog. Here are a few other tidbits I wrote down:

• We need to ask ourselves if we are making disciples, or just trying to add Jesus to the "american dream."
• Don't "have a mission," BE God's mission for the sake of the world.
• Church should not be a subculture within a worldly culture, it's an outpost for the kingdom of God.
• Jesus didn't say to build a church. He said to make disciples.
• Effectiveness is not our gathering quota, it is our sending quota.