Nate Pyle's Blog, page 5
March 20, 2015
Be Brave. Be Kind. Even When It Hurts.
My son turned five last week.
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Sorry, I needed a moment to let that sink in. How in the worlddid that happen? I knowevery one says it goes fast and that you should cherish the moments because they will only be babies for a little while and blah, blah, blah. But who thought everyone was right? I didn’t. But they were. All of them.They grow up so fast. The other day he asked for tilapia, brussels sprouts, and potatoes for dinner. That’s a real person’s meal. Not a five year old’s meal.
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March 16, 2015
The Church Isn’t the Destination
When I was in middle school my family drove from Michigan to Wyoming on a two-week camping trip. Somewhere along the way we began noticingsigns for Wall Drug. I vividly remember a sign alerting us to this mystical place:“Wall Drug 500 miles.” It was a siren song enticing mini-vans crammed with families exploring the West to detour away from historic monuments into tourist hell. And so we, likeso many who had gone before us, stopped at Wall Drug and got sucked into the kitsch. And the free wa...
March 12, 2015
Learning Hope
Twice a year for two years I have been making this trip to Guelph, Canada to work with sixteen churches and their pastors to facilitate congregational transformation. On the surfacethis looks like any other church leadership retreat. We talk about generating and sustaining creative tension, current reality of our churches and contexts, God’s preferred future, and discipleship. Family systems theory, mental models, and adaptive versus operational leadership are concepts we learn about, all in...
