Roles Father
- Be a great dad.
- Plan daddy/daughter dates
- Plan camping trip(s)
- Schedule family vacation/traditions
- Busy with work/life
- Letting the unimportant/urgent take priority over the important/non-urgent
- Girls trusting me in different stages of their life
- When older, they take me on daddy/dinner date
- Walking them down the aisle.
Church Planter
- To plant a church in the heart of downtown Rockford
- Gather Core Team
- Gather for Worship
- Plant house churches
- People who have had negative experiences with church/Christians
- Critics
- Lack of finances
- My/Our junk (inexperience, fear, complacency, apathy, etc)
- Hearing stories of people discovering (and re-discovering) Jesus
- A multicultural, diverse Jesus-Community
- Seeing downtown Rockford make different lists (i.e. from "most dangerous" to "best places to live")
Writer
- To re-write and re-edit "Why the Church Needs More Bartenders" by August 2013
- Set a finish date
- Schedule a writing weekend (to get ball rolling again)
- Schedule weekly writing time
- Telling people my goals
- Not guarding that time against "other things"
- Being overly self-critical
- Doing the hard work of editing this time
- Getting the newly published book in the mail
- Getting an encouraging email from a reader
- Being pleasantly surprised by sales :)
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