Anyone else have a retreat hangover!?
It is one thing to come down off of the mountain motivated and engaged. It is another to just fall off of it and experience a crash.
Now more than any other time, it is vital for us as leaders to keep up the momentum that began this past weekend. I’m not sure how each of you deal with that, but I encourage you to spend some extra time in the Word or in prayer this week. Maybe you need to get together with someone and talk about your experience. Perhaps you need to write down a vision or idea that you received during the two days away.
Whatever it is, let’s continue to advance as well-equipped leaders.
The point of the time, effort and content of this retreat was not to pull off ‘an event’ that looked and felt cool (though it did). The point was to start and catalyze something for the future.
I shared in my first breakout workshop on service that one of my desires for the retreat was that people would have certain experiences or be taken captive by a moment or idea- and that one day they would look back to the event and see it as the beginning of something big.
Don’t let the spirit of the retreat end with the closing song on Saturday evening- pursue the stirrings in your souls- prepare yourselves for a new semester- carry out the calling of your leadership in this city and in this world.
John - Amen and Amen. I have been trying to focus the energy from the retreat on my new small group and am getting excited in the process! Preying the rest of our leaders up.
Jonathan
February 1st, 2008
I meant “praying” for sure.
Jonathan
February 1st, 2008
whew-
i was concerned for a moment, that you were camouflaged, hiding in bushes outside of leaders’ homes, waiting to strike like a cheetah…
*Hasler
February 1st, 2008