The Superman within

Tim asked me yesterday if I could give a testimony about what has gone on since changing ministry and by doing so how has it affected my relationship with God and people.

I have always been a person who sees something that needs doing and goes ahead and does it. I am an Action Man. Sometimes consequences whether good or bad are thought through, but most of the time Wendy is my consequence. She does the thinking, I am the body. So now I am an Action Man with a great body.

My experience as the Church Worship Co-ordinator was one of these actions. Not a calling but something seen, a need and one must act! I knew pretty quickly that I could not sustain it because I was acting, being, doing something I was not. I could have continued, but it was taking away my super hero power. It was becoming my Cryptonite,

That's when I decided to reveal my Action Man status and "throw in the cape". I couldn't save the world. I could have been defeated....

But God had other plans.

This time there wasn't a need for me to do something, the world didn't need a Super Hero to fix something that was visibly happening. Instead God needed an Action Man who was willing to take a journey of discovery. To see what could be and to be part of something new.

Being part of Watch Out Kevin, the Drama Team, the change in evening services and the coming of Simon to help with the administration of it was all part of Gods plan when he called me by punching me on the arm (Hard I might add) in the middle of the night while I was sleeping at Parachute and saying to me "Father of Sons". I have found My Action Man status and it hasn't all been revealed to me or anyone, but it is exciting and energising.

It is taking that which is still unknown and rolling with it. Taking the punches and most importantly looking back to see how far one has rolled. What kind of buildings you have been able to leap over and what sort of terrain you have covered like a speeding bullet and saying "This is the kind of Super Hero God has made me into."

I still have the cryptonite but I now know how to deal with it because God reveals the journey as I go and I am obedient.