Mark Beeson, Senior Pastor at Granger Community Church, told us all to shut up.

OK, he didn’t actually use those words, but that’s what he said. Stop Talking. Start Doing. Unending conversations accomplish nothing in the church for the betterment of the world around us. There’s a reason Jesus said “Go” and not “Discuss.” While there is a time and place for earnest, thought-provoking discussion, it should not last for eternity. Brian McLaren made this point in a different way in Everything Must Change, positing that the church is much too focused on it’s own needs (What color carpet would cause the least congregational uproar?) and not on the hurting, dying world around us. In many ways, the church can become all talk and no walk. He who has feet to walk, let him walk.

Then Mark Beeson told us he’s unbalanced. Which, after listening to him describe his driving habits, was easily believable. But he said that a balanced person never moves. You have to lean into life to get the most from it, all the while remembering that leaning means a greater chance for a fall. Mistakes and failures will most assuredly come, but your team, your spouse, your friends, your family, and your God will all be there to help you back up.

My distillation came from a wise, green, midget alien: Do or do. There is no do not