The Simple Stuf

The original title of this blog was Wildfire. My subtitle read... "It starts with a spark, passes to a flicker, grows into a flame, and explodes into a Wildfire. The Spirit of the Lord is untamed, outrageous, peaceful, intense, fierce, gentle, undomesticated, unruly, uncontrollable, calming, unpredictable... wild. This journey is for all those who wish to be the same." This blog is still, and always will be, about that journey.

January 13th, 2004- Jesus changed me profoundly, which prompted me to move to our study to create this new journal of what the Spirit was about to do in and through me. I named it Wildfire, because I didn't know how else to describe the Wild excitement that was rushing through my body to live radically for Christ. My journaling turned to the written word in the days that followed, and in the 5 months since.

Jesus has radically changed my life.

I am not the same person. I am not the same man. I am not the same husband. I am not the same minister. I am not the same friend. I am not the same.

One of the most profound things Jesus has revealed to me is that life isn't just about the biggest and best, the greatest and most, the largest and loudest... its about the small stuff.

Its about down time, family time, dinner with friends, the company of strangers, games that don't make you think to hard, conversations that do, seeking wisdom from wise people, living by their advice even when it doesn't exactly jive with me. Its about individual lives being united by the individual life that lived life to the fullest, loved others to the extreme, served with the a heaping helping of mercy and humility and died for the most significant purpose in history. Its all about Jesus.

That is the Simple Stuff.

Jesus.

We make it too hard. Too confusing. Too legalistic. Too demanding. Too restrictive. Too linear. Too top-down. Too controlling. Too BIG. Too detailed. Too much.

It is actually quite simple. Its all about Jesus, and how the person of Christ impacts the very core of who I am. His life, His love, His Kingdom, His Body. Its about love, and community, and unity. Its about the things he spoke of and lived by.

It is all about JESUS!

That is "the Simple Stuff".