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God has called me to “entrust to others what He has entrusted to me.” I live to give my life away in every aspect - total reproduction. God has allowed me to be directly involved with 4 church plants in recent history, and since, I have had the privilege of working with many other new churches and ministries. The experience has been and continues to be total exhilaration as it exemplifies and embodies completely what God has formed me to be.
My core values of synergy and innovation come from the engineering and missionary background. “Mcgyverisms” are the heart of flexibility and making do with what you have in order to get the job done. That is engineering. To always improve upon and challenge the existing structure. Nothing is ever so perfect that need not be improved. Yesterday’s innovation is tomorrow’s artifact. As Electronic Arts puts it, “challenge everything.” To be satisfied with what is given and still do the task with excellence is the only option for satisfying the Biblical command of Colossians 3.17. The ministry I have been allowed to have with Mississippi Baptists exists, not to do a job, but as a natural extension of who God has shaped me to be. I could do, in any environment, no less than what I do as a strategist for Church Planting. The task of equipping leadership to start new ministries, teaching others all that I know, synergizing with the other ministries in the organization, and training someone to take over this ministry is the only task that God has given me. This is accomplished enthusiastically, with every resource and technological advance at my disposal, because that is the most excellent, and most fun way of doing things.
It is not so much that I fit church planting, but that church planting fits me. As God has put the many different puzzle pieces together to form who I am, this is an intricate piece. Even greater still, is the realization that while I am a work in progress, I am also a piece of a greater puzzle that God has put together. I cannot function, nor can God accomplish His ministry through me, unless I team together with the other pieces around me. In MBCB life, this means that I cannot exist void of the other ministerial pieces. Although I could do good enough by myself, that is not satisfactory. Each member of the winning team fulfills their part with synergistic expertise. If my piece serves to add a little multicultural postmodern diversity to the whole so that together we can refrain from obsolescence, then I have served my function well.
I am far from complete. But I am continuously seeing the picture of my puzzle come into focus. In time, God will reveal to me the scope of the pieces yet to placed. The mystery of what lies ahead is part of the fun of the great adventure. I look forward to seeing the finished portrait. Until then, I’ll enjoy the ride!
David A
2 Timothy 2.2
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