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8 Questions: The Zag Test.

As I said in my earlier post, I am going to be posting the questions and tests that we have been going over as a staff and as individuals. These questions are to help guide us as we are trying to follow God, discover where he is calling us, and see things in the right perspective.

The first test is The Zag Test.

When everyone is zigging, God often calls us to zag.

For instance…

In 2009 when I - and many others - were looking for jobs, everyone wanted to find that awesome job where we didn’t have to move from our current houses or change our lifestyles too much.

So as everyone was zigging, God called us to zag. And zag we did; all the way to Iowa. We didn’t even know what the zag test was, but it would have been a helpful way to help in the explanation as we tried to explain our decision to family and friends!

Then, 3 years later, as The Gateway Church was thriving and Es and I had become totally enmeshed in the incredible community of both the church and of Des Moines, we felt God calling us to zag again. This time, zag back to southern California.

I don’t want to spend a ton of time going into these zags or all of the conversations, prayer, and fear that went into the decisions - but hopefully it helps illustrate The Zag Test.

So in a world of zigs…do you feel like you’re leaning towards a zag? Is there a zag on the horizon that you are trying to talk yourself out of? Do you have your own zag story already?

8 Questions

A few weeks ago Mike Erie, one of our pastors, shared 8 questions that have helped him figure out what God was calling him to, how to know if something was a God-sized dream or more of a personal goal, and how to decipher between hard choices. He didn’t come up with the questions. In fact, these questions were asked to him by 4 or 5 other pastors, leaders, and friends.

He was very clear that these questions won’t help everyone; you might find that only one or two make sense to you, your situation, or your questions.

Over the next week or two, I’m going to post each of these questions with some thoughts. It’s been a pretty big part of my life and conversations lately, and I know I’m not the only one trying to make it out there.

As a wise philosopher once said; “It’s like a jungle out there, sometimes I wonder how I keep from going under.”

First question is coming soon.

~c

I just found out Zach Williams and the Bellow are playing at The Hotel Cafe on June 5th. Es and I are going - who else wants to come?

He’s one of my favorites, and I’m super excited to here this stuff live - especially at such a great venue!

Here are some spots you can hear the glory:

Teach Me To Know: (From the upcoming record, this is a video of their actual recording sessions. They did the whole album live like this. Amazing.)

Names That Fell:One of his older songs.

Let me know if you wanna go!

~c