eugene cho

it’s been your typical week here in seattle:  lots of rain, record setting wind gusts over 70 miles per hour, the seattle seahawks choking to my original hometown team (the san francisco niners), lots of double short hazelnut lattes with extra foam, etc.  enjoying life and ministry as usual. 

yet in the middle of a typical week, it’s amazed me how untypical this week has turned out to be been that’s left me wondering, ‘when is dreaming too dreamy?’

‘huh, you ask?’

my stength and weakness as a person and pastor is that i’m a visioneer, a dreamer, and a big picture person.  so, i need to make sure i communicate what i’m thinking to my staff, leadership, and church or it’ll come back to bite me in the arse.  i also need to do that so that people can share in the ownership and provide flesh to the ‘skeletal visioneering.’

so, this week, some of the following stuff took place:

1. making plans to visit bellingham next week to talk to a couple quest members about planting a campus or church there.
2. chatting with our denominational folks about joining their staff on 1/4 time capacity to work as a consultant.
3. late night meeting with couple folks about planting a church in federal way/tacoma .
4. met with one of the missionaries who hosted me during my vision trip to japan.  it was exhilarating talking about doing ministry and planting churches in japan where there is an incredible absence of men and younger folks in the church.

all this to simply ask, ‘when is dreaming too dreamy?’  i realized that i can’t say ‘yes’ to all of these things and maintain a sane lifestyle.  as a recovering workaholic, i know that i have a higher capacity for work and multi-tasking but i need to recalibrate so i can stay true to my priorities and convictions and still pursue the burdens on my heart.  i need some sort of catchy ‘save the cheerleader, save the world’ motto to abide by.

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