If you want to build something good, then you will need to do small things,
over and over, for a long period of time.
over and over, for a long period of time.
It’s August 2011, about five weeks after Restoration Church was planted. I’m reflecting on how we started out. I’m thinking about what we have been doing, what we have been preaching, and how we have been serving those who took the risk to join us. And while I am thankful for all the positive things that are happening, I am also wondering why there aren’t more people flocking to join us. After all, we have been killing it for five weeks!
It was a rookie error. A thought laced with arrogance and self-confidence and soaked in inexperience. I needed to learn what it takes to build something good.
It was a rookie error. A thought laced with arrogance and self-confidence and soaked in inexperience. I needed to learn what it takes to build something good.
Small things, repetitively, over a long period of time.
This principle applies to building anything that’s worthwhile – children, leadership, marriages, relationships. If you want to build something of value, something which really matters, then it won’t be enough to do just one beneficial thing, or even two or three. You need to do them again and again and again. So many that they pile up on one another. (Mums know what I am talking about.) Moment by moment, day after day, month after month, year after year.
There are two biblical words which capture this idea – faithfulness and endurance. Faithfulness is about loyalty and reliability, and endurance is about following it through and going the distance.
The church has grown a lot in the last 12 months, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. The growth we have seen has emerged out of the faithful deeds and endurance of the saints. Let’s continue to be people like this, people who keep turning up and doing good things in every place God has put us.
There are two biblical words which capture this idea – faithfulness and endurance. Faithfulness is about loyalty and reliability, and endurance is about following it through and going the distance.
The church has grown a lot in the last 12 months, but it didn’t come out of nowhere. The growth we have seen has emerged out of the faithful deeds and endurance of the saints. Let’s continue to be people like this, people who keep turning up and doing good things in every place God has put us.
This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.
Revelation 13:10
Revelation 13:10