Have you ever been playing catch or fetch with a dog and after a few minutes of spirited play and connection, your 4-legged friend lost sight of the ball?
“Over there!” you point with confidence. “Look, over there!”
He looks at you with concern.
You act like you are throwing the ball again.  He’s still looking at you.
If only you could tell him, “Stop looking at my finger and look to what I’m pointing at!”
I’m almost afraid sometimes to point at something cool that I find on the internet. I’m concerned that because the word “ministry” is in the title, that I’ll be held to some unrealistic guidelines as to what I find inspiration in.
“But Kevin, that YouTube clip had a curse word in it and you referred it to me and you have the word “ministry” in the title.”
Stop looking at my finger.
What we could do with this is bigger than the curse word!
What I want to show you tomorrow is one of the most GENIUS things I have ever seen… It has a curse word in the video.. maybe 2.. But it’s something YOU could easily implement into what you are doing.
If you will look past my finger, you will see the very real opportunity to minister.
So, what do you think? Should I post it? Should I embed the video from YouTube? or just reference to it?
I would really love your input on this.
I say post it. You gave a warning first and as far as I know we’re supposed to be grownups (G)
If it has relevant meaning in what you want to get across. We should be able to handle it.
For me personally, I’m saved but not perfect, there is a cuss word that comes out every now and then. (Still working on that) ~
I say post it or I”ll spend all day on youtube.com looking for something that I think you’ve found. Karen great job on the honesty……
Don’t wait til tomorrow! Post it now!
Hey Kev,
If God could see the potential in me even though I was cursed, certainly I can see the potential in something with a curse word.
Well I for one won’t be watching it. I live a pure, holy, and self-righteous life.
I think we’re all adults and can handle a couple curse words. Some people crack me up with that kind of smugness…
I think you should do the cheesy voice over where you can really tell what the people are saying but the voice over is jsut a crack up becuase it doesnt match up.Â
By all means post it. I heard a story once where this well respected evengelist (I cant think of his name or even all the details on the story) was keynote speaker at a missions conference and he stood up and and just said a curse word. Once people gained thier composure he said that most of you were too self righteous to be concerned about what I said to be concerned about millions of people that are dying and going to hell, then he sat down. Sometimes we need moments like that to see how pius we are and examine our ownselves.Â
Jeremy
I have a situation on my hands. The guys at CrossRoads are not comfortable with me associating this YouTube video to the EYM Blog..
When I first discovered this and watched the video, he had 1,598,618 views… and he’d only been up for 7 days at that time… he’s been copied now, so I’m sure that his numbers are skewed a bit … but I checked today and he’s approaching 5 million views now.
I’m dying to write about it. So, what I may do is to send you guys the blog post that I wrote to your email addresses with a link to go and look at it. That way, nobody has to pay for my ‘questionable’ choice of finding ministry in a YouTube video with a bad, bad word in it.
Thank you guys for your responses. I love doing this.
Kevin
That dang Mickey, he’s so uptight!
Send it to my e-mail addy. Would love to see it~ Hang in there, love what your doing!!
lol…
Hey Karen. I was up til about 2 this morning writing down the lessons I learned from it. I will send it to your email address as soon as I look at it again. I’ll send it to all of you guys.
thanks for everything.
Thanks, and get some rest! Don’t be burnin’ yourself out. (G)
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