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Photo Gallery: LifePoint LIVE - August 24, 2008 - You're FIRED!
Posted on: August 24, 2008 by 
Today was, well, a bit different. As Lead Pastor of LifePoint, I had an epiphany this week that drove me to make a radical decision. Today, I was fired! And not only me, all of LifePoint was fired! The staff, the board, the volunteers, the band, the singers, the teachers, the LifeGroup leaders - all of us were fired!
I found myself passionless about people and consumed with completing our building. Through a strange series of events, I believe God led me to a place where I saw more clearly than anything I've ever seen before: Buildings without people serve no purpose! Accomplishments without relationships are meaningless! Relationship is what fuels our purpose and purpose is what fuels our passion!
There has been LifePoint without a building but there's never been LifePoint without people - diverse, messed-up and broken, though we may be! And if we try to have a cloistered community, the result will be stagnation, politics, powerplays and religion. But if we, with determination and intentionality, develop relationships with those NOT like us, those OUTSIDE our little world, then purpose is restored and passion is reignited and the fire that characterized us in the beginning will flare again!
So, only the passionate will rejoin this team. Only those who want to be here and make a difference in this dark world will sign up again. I've reenlisted. I hope you do, too!
Peace, love and passion!
The recently fired/rehired Lead Pastor, Donavon Hill
Sounds like Jesus came to your church today! I recently had an incredible dream of heaven and actually heard the trumpet music! We get so caught up in working forJesus we loose sight of what living for God is all about.Thanks for reminding us!