What makes you come alive?
“Don’t ask what the world needs,” says Howard Thurman. “Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
This was the guiding quote of a church visioning retreat I led recently at Fellowship Congregational Church (UCC) in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Fellowship Church and its pastor, Chris Moore, invited me to help guide a group of church members and active participants in a day-long conversation about how they organized their life together. At this juncture in their church life, as at many other mainline Protestant churches, Fellowship’s leaders are asking questions such as these:
