What to do.

The past week I see too many needs in the world, so many things I have committed to and so few people who seem to want to do anything about all the needs in the world. I have had so many things land in my lap this week, some required me to just sit and listen and others required me to pull every ounce of my limited leadership experience out of the bucket.

The Cube as I have discussed before is something I am passionately working on in my church. I seem to have taken a large chunk of its admin on board which is awesome as most of it comes naturally to me from my experience in club days. I have received praise in recent weeks for doing things that I don’t find hard and do without a second thought. The big drive I now have with the Cube aside from the goals the leaders set down as a team at the start is to get some serious numbers of young people involved in it. So far so good, only one week since I invited some of the people I knew from the club and so far six new faces at Cube events.

The other bring drive with The Cube is bringing people to faith which is a delicate subject which the Cube has very important polices on doing this to ensure people are not preached to and Bible bashed so to speak. One such person I have slowly guided that way and answered the hard questions for is so close to making the commitment and joining the kingdom. But we live in an evil world and at this stage it may not amount to anything. When dealing with young adults all through history, sex is always a massive issue and once again a relationship that is immoral and the consequences that go with that may see this person drift or be pulled far far away. Once again I am reminded that God is Sovereign and it is all part of the bigger plan.

One Cube member came to me for advice on a similar issue related to sex. It required me to dig deep, to be a leader and to give this guy advice that he will remember for the rest of his life. How do you do such a thing? Lots of prayer before hand and faith in an awesome God. For the first time as a Cube leader I have had to pull out the artillery, rebuke behaviour and set a challenge for someone I love. It’s exhausting but had to be done. Now that its past Im glad I was able to do it.

These events have smashed my thinking against the wall. My mother refers to it as ducks in a row. I plan in advance and aim for things which Is not always a bad thing. But if I’m honest with myself I plan to bring person A to faith followed by person B then C etc. Paul's story and life is proof enough to me that there is no way this approach will work so time to adjust. I will happily work in the chaos and still make a difference and trust that God has it in control.

Saturday I ventured off the north shore and headed to Five Dock for the first of three training days for the Make Poverty History road trip. I had no idea what I was in for. There were hundreds of people, mostly girls, in a room for an awesome cause. I learnt heaps that day and became very passionate about the cause. I was somewhat disheartened that night when I saw at least twice as many people that night in the pub. Most of which did not care for any other then themselves. What a selfish world we live in and I live in a community of self cantered people. If everyone cared as much as these Make Poverty History team what an awesome place the world would be. But because they don’t what a miserable materialistic world we live in.