People who accomplished great things, she noticed, often combined a passion for a single mission with an unswerving dedication to achieve that mission, whatever the obstacles and however long it might take. She decided she needed to name this quality, and she chose the word “grit.”
“The Grit Scale”
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I’m hoping the passion and single mission of your church is seeing people restored, healed, and loved. What’s your Grit Score for bringing people from broken and poor backgrounds into your community?
And I’m hoping your single passion and mission is not building a big church and adding more butts to your pews. Your Grit Score may be high for this, but who cares? Gaining the world and losing your soul is not really an accomplishment.
Helping people is long and hard work. You can’t do it outside of being resourced by the Spirit. Hard work does not bring people out of poverty or death. That’s all work of the Spirit. But it’s still a single passion and mission.
There’s lots and lots of church people slaving away at keeping the church going, the church afloat, the church contemporary. That’s grit and that’s celebrated by the world and church alike. But it doesn’t have to be that hard. Christ builds His ekklesia when we start healing the sick, binding the broken hearted, and freeing the captives. The light yoke of Christ, might not rate high on the grit scale, but does rate high on obedience to the Spirit.
(Source: johnfitzpatrick, via infoneer-pulse)
