Chicago Tea Party and the Power of Being Passionate
By now, many of you have probably seen the video clip from CNBC where Rick Santelli urges hard-working Americans to revolt against Obama's mortgage assistance bailout plan. If not, you can view the video from CNBC here.
This article is not about the merits of his argument, although I happen to agree that government needs to get out of the way at this point since they are making the problem worse than better. There is a lot of money on the sidelines that is too afraid to make a move because of fears of a massive bank nationalization plan. As a result, the stock market keeps going down every day until somebody announces a plan that actually might work or the government decides to stop meddling.
The point of this post is that if you do your job with passion, eventually your work will get noticed and you will enjoy success. The one of the key reasons that this rant has become so popular is the passion with which it was delivered. If it was delivered in a monotone way without any conviction, would anyone have really paid attention?
Similarly, are you being passionate about sharing the love of Christ with others? In Revelation 3:15-16, the church at Laodicea was warned about being lukewarm, "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
As a result of the 2008 Catalyst Conference, I found a series of sermons presented by Craig Groeschel from Lifechurch.tv entitled "Practical Atheist" that really hits home with respect to this topic. The main point of the series is the question of whether or not you are acting as if God does not exist. To view the series via streaming video, click here.
Are you comfortable in your job or in your ministry at your church? Or are you stepping out of your comfort zone and making a difference in people's lives? Let's find a way to live with passion so that people will take note of how we are living. Or perhaps we'd rather risk that God finds us lukewarm and wants to spit us out?
This article is not about the merits of his argument, although I happen to agree that government needs to get out of the way at this point since they are making the problem worse than better. There is a lot of money on the sidelines that is too afraid to make a move because of fears of a massive bank nationalization plan. As a result, the stock market keeps going down every day until somebody announces a plan that actually might work or the government decides to stop meddling.
The point of this post is that if you do your job with passion, eventually your work will get noticed and you will enjoy success. The one of the key reasons that this rant has become so popular is the passion with which it was delivered. If it was delivered in a monotone way without any conviction, would anyone have really paid attention?
Similarly, are you being passionate about sharing the love of Christ with others? In Revelation 3:15-16, the church at Laodicea was warned about being lukewarm, "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
As a result of the 2008 Catalyst Conference, I found a series of sermons presented by Craig Groeschel from Lifechurch.tv entitled "Practical Atheist" that really hits home with respect to this topic. The main point of the series is the question of whether or not you are acting as if God does not exist. To view the series via streaming video, click here.
Are you comfortable in your job or in your ministry at your church? Or are you stepping out of your comfort zone and making a difference in people's lives? Let's find a way to live with passion so that people will take note of how we are living. Or perhaps we'd rather risk that God finds us lukewarm and wants to spit us out?
why cant the greens seem to find a spokesman who speaks from the heart.
in an age of bland characterless politicians with nothing much to choose between them, isnt it ethical integrity that people are crying out for?
isnt it time we had representitives who were concerned about the welfare of all living beings and had a global outlook instead of always looking at narrow economic advantage?
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