Blog #2

My last phone call I had with my mentor was much more sporadic than normal. My mentor pastors a new church plant in Seattle, Washington called The Kardia. Usually, my mentor asks me for ideas on how to form and craft his sermon series usually for three months in advance. However, this last time he called he asked me if he should scrap his current series plan and begin to go back to his vision series because his church was absorbing another church that was getting ready to close down. This situation does not happen to often in Wheaton, because there’s two churches on every corner, but in Seattle churches close down all the time. So, my mentor called me frantically asking my opinion on what he should do with his messages so the audience would feel connected. He called me while I was working out on the treadmill and we were going back and forth about keeping the current series he was in versus moving back to a previous series. During our argument he started talking to me about making tough decisions that affect other people. He began to tell me that when you are in leadership you have to be the one that says yes or no to what’s happening around the company, business, church, etc. What he said that truly stood out to me was that leaders have to be okay with not being liked all the time.