The pancakes are eaten and the coffee is brewing, the wife is asleep and the kids are glued to Spongebob. It is Saturday morning in the Rheaume home. I am sitting in the sunroom channel surfing and I came across a NASA documentary on NATGEO. After the Apollo 1 caught fire killing 3 astronauts NASA did a bold thing directly after. They declared that they would be the first to put men on the moon that year! They declared that after they just burned 3 of their own alive. They didn’t scrap the program because it was too dangerous. They didn’t postpone for years so they could figure every detail out. They didn’t make the day that those men died the focus, but the vision of what they died for became the focus.
When we fail in ministry, (or in life for that matter) we tend to focus on the failure. Why it happened? How can I keep it from happening? Who was to blame? Instead, how refreshing would it be to just get up, dust yourself off and keep plugging away at your purpose. The goal should always be the focus. The goal of our ministry is to bring people closer to Jesus. We will sometimes fail. We will at times make it about us. We will fall flat on our faces. In the future I hope we will not spend our time analyzing our failures but will get up and continue forward towards the audacious goal of influencing our community for Jesus.
Sean Rheaume 