Welcome to the final post of 3. If you haven’t already, please catch up with the first 2 posts, starting with PART 1.

First, let me say that I am not ending the series due to running out of things to complain about. As I sit to write this entry, I realize I will NEVER run out of things to complain about.

I am ending the series here because in writing it, I realize that all I’m doing is trying to justify my lack of patience… my lack of mercy… my lack of forgiveness and my inability to solve the problems on my own.

Today I had planned to write about the lack of oversight, organization and evaluation within my church. However, as I reflect on this issue and how it affects me, I realize that this need I see in my church is even more needed within me personally.

I have been slow to allow Christ’s oversight in my life lately. I have been unorganized. I have focused so much on the problems and frustrations that I see in my church that I have failed to take some time to evaluate my own heart and intentions.

A friend pulled me aside yesterday and described his vision for addressing some of these issues in our church. A practical, passionate, doable, workable vision. I didn’t tell him at the time, but I was a bit ashamed.

Here I am putting considerable effort into complaining about the problem, while he is contributing actively to a solution. And even as he laid out his ideas, my mind was whirling with reasons for it not to work. But the truth is, it just might.

I don’t know if Christians in general are too uptight. But I certainly have been. Regardless of what my church does, I need Christ’s oversight of my life. I need to organize my priorities. I need to evaluate my heart and my passion. And just like my church and all the people in it, I need Christ.

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