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May 2010
Necessity is the mother of invention – so the saying goes, I’m not sure that I ever truly knew what that meant until I had reason to visit one of the local car dealerships the other day.
As I walked through the car park to go into the offices, I walked past the area where they were preparing the customers cars, and my attention was drawn to the young person, part of the valeting crew, who was washing the cars. He was enthusiastic about his task of that there was no doubt, but it not that which drew me to him. He was wearing a woollen hat, and around his head, at an angle of about 45 degrees ran a large rubber band, and under the rubber band, on his left ear was a mobile phone, into which he was talking. I can only assume that his phone either did not have a blue tooth capability, it was larger than the normal phone, or that he could not afford a Bluetooth headset. Undeterred he had ‘invented’ his own effective, and efficient means of talking whilst he worked.
Recently as a leadership team, and as a Church we have been thinking about how our task remains the same but our tactics will need to change and develop according to our situation and context.
When Jesus was preparing the disciple for the moment that He would be taken from them He set the task – ‘to go and make disciples’ – he shared with them the tactics to use – ‘ teaching them to obey everything I have commanded’, and He assured them of His triumph ‘ I (Jesus) am with you always’.
In truth we have to invent nothing – we just have to stay connected, with or without a rubber band.
Melvyn
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