Success...recalibrating our definition....

I just jotted this down in an email to our leadership team...so I thought I would post it here:

In a talk at the Organic Church Movements Conference Neil Cole spoke about the Dark Side of Organic Church. It was a helpful talk about some of the realities we face walking this journey. One of his points was about our own personal drive for success. We are challenged around this all the time. Part of Neil's challenge was to recalibrating ourselves regarding success.

Success...(a definition I picked up along the way that I've really tried to adopt)...is: Knowing what God wants you to do and doing it.

Then yesterday I was reading along in my Bible and that defintion seemed to be authenticated by a verse or two. Here are those verses:

Oh, the joys of those ...[who] delight in doing everything the LORD wants; day and night they think about his law. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season without fail. Their leaves never wither, and in all they do, they prosper.
Psalm 1:1-4 (NLT)

Let's be a people who delight in doing everything the Lord wants!