Launch Unfinished Ideas

Sometimes you have to just simply start things unfinished. 

My problem is that I tend to have a picture in my head of how I want something to turn out, and if I’m not starting it in that place then I’m bummed. 

I was telling someone this morning that if I didn’t have to preach every week, I’d probably never finish a sermon.  I’ve never quite got it finished.  I always want to figure out a better way to say it, or have a stronger illustration or understand a passage of Scripture better.  But because it comes every week at some point I have to have something to give, and so in a way I’m forced to put something out.  If I wasn’t forced to put it out, it would probably just sit there unfinished. 

That’s what a lot of us do.  We’ve got a great idea or a project we want to begin.  I’ve got about a dozen unfinished blog posts sitting right here.  And we let it sit unfinished.

Sometimes you have to start things unfinished.  Just get it going and get it out there.  That’s the only way you’ll get it finished.

This weekend, I’m going to be sharing several things that we’re going to engage in during 2010 with Parkcrest.  I’m really excited about what’s going to be happening over these next 12 months.  But the thing is that I’ve been tempted not to share most of these things because they’re not finished yet.  But what I’m learning is that if I wait for them to be finished or at a point of being what I think is ready, we’ll probably never do them. 

So, we’ll start them unfinished.  Because sometimes that’s what you need to do in order to make things happen.