Jason Stonehouse

This is yet another clip of our vision sermon from a few weeks ago — this is talking about our mission and focus to be about Jesus’ call on our life…

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A couple of weeks ago (August 15) we talked through the heartbeat and focus of our church particularly in the days to come. And while I’d love to have everyone listen to the whole message, I realize some like to get the content in more “bite-size” pieces. So over the next couple of days/weeks I thought I would give you a couple of pieces of the sermon so you can either be reminded of the heart or hear it for the first time.

I’m not sure who was the originator of the quote, but I heard it from one of my teammates, Chris Thomson. He asked, “if not now, when?” I thought about it a lot. How many times do I put something off because…. well I don’t really know why. At the moment, it sounds good in my head to push off something that I’d rather not to, or to justify doing other stuff that I’m involved in. Let’s face it, our world has lots of shiny things to distract us. There’s not a day that goes by where I’m not drawn to check my Facebook because I’m sure someone wrote something witty as their status and if I miss it, my day will not be complete. I’m continually looking for the most recent email, the YouTube video of the day or wanting to join in that interesting conversation in the hallway. And that’s just my work day. The rest of my life could easily be distracted with a million things to do at the house, conversations to had, games to played, snacks to eat. None of it is really bad, but before I know it, my life is over flowing with plenty of things to do and often it’s the important things that I never seem to get around to.