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Ever met someone and go “Dude….I’d love to work with him.” Now for me, it’s always a him. Why? Because if I said - “I’d like to work with her” I’d have some serious explaining to do. Plus, I’m a male chauvinist. (That was for Linda and Cathy! ha ha!)
Seriously, I’ve got a list of people I’d love to work with and have no idea how it would work. Two disclaimers. #1 - if I’ve already worked with you - you’re not on the list. Why? Depends on who you are. Okay…next question.
#2 - Can’t be somebody famous. Everyone wants to work with Andrew Jones, Marko, Jordon Cooper, Steve Taylor, Andy Stanley, or Jonny Baker. Or not but that’s too easy.
So here’s my list…
- Pros: great sports fan, good writer and communicator, funny, not afraid to do crazy stuff.
- Cons: hair - or lack thereof, he’s a Boston fan which means if something can wrong around him, it will. Multiply this by the fact that he also went to Auburn and you’ve got some serious negative mo-jo working here. Is all of that redeemable?
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Pros: his wife is funny, he’s 50 times smarter than any other youth pastor on the planet, he’s more detail oriented - see grammar police.
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Cons: he’s in a house full of women. Eventually all of that estrogen is going to break something. Probably the bank. They have Auburn ties as well. It’s a sure sign of the apocalypse to have both Auburn grads at the same church. (I’ll pause here for our Auburn readers to make sure they caught the joke.)
- Pros: He’s a mountain biker, he’s British, he likes to drink beer.
- Cons: He’s British and he likes to drink beer.
- Pros: funny, insightful, cool hair, we could push him around as he’d be the youngest one around.
- Cons: Canadian + Boston Fan + 2 Auburn Grads + a Brit = Titanic, living in America with real football could send him into overload and he’d need some detox time.
- Pros: Alabama roots, creative creator of worship environments, techno dude, fun kids
- Cons: fun kids are about to get the Middle School Disease, talks really fast when excited. That’s not necessarily bad but when done with a southern accent things can get dicey.
- Pros: I think he’s a Denver Bronco fan, he’s transparent, he’s humble - as far as youth pastors go.
- Cons: SBC - as a reformed SBC’er myself, I think this is redeemable. I recognize the gamble I’m taking. Plus, he’s in Idaho. I don’t know much about Idaho. I know I need to go up there at some point and investigate.
The biggest problem is location. Where would we meet? Who would even go to a church with all of us on the same staff? Would we ever get anything done? Staff meetings would be year long Xbox contests and fantasy football talks.
Tags: building a church team, people Id like to work with
17 responses so far ↓
1 Len // Jun 28, 2006 at 4:21 pm
The hair has grown back and in case you didn’t hear, the curse has been broken.
That group would make for a fun whiffle ball game at the church picnic wouldn’t it?
2 Catbird // Jun 28, 2006 at 8:12 pm
I NEED to meet these other guys. Wait a minute, that didn’t come out right…
Oh, and Paul isn’t actually an Auburn grad, so he’s somewhat redeemed from the negative “Auburn” label. He got wise and got out before it was too late. (either that or his major [Jazz Music] was cancelled the year before he graduated. bummer.)
I, on the other hand, bleed orange and blue. At the core, I’m a Tiger. Wait a minute, that didn’t come out right either…
3 Paul // Jun 28, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Wow, how flattering? Maybe we can plan a mock up somewhere. I love to school all of you in some Halo (for your personal edification and ministry training of course).
Seriously though, thanks for the encouragement. I’d love to meet all these guys.
4 jeremy // Jun 28, 2006 at 10:43 pm
i just got back from a brief speaking stint in the good ol’ u s of a… brought some canadian flair to that boring country of yours
haha. bring me down for a camp next summer or something.. surely you’ve got some pull at that church of yours, right????
5 Big Tom // Jun 29, 2006 at 5:48 am
Whatever happened to our dream of the “Lad and Dad” Baptist Church where we would be on staff?
6 Len // Jun 29, 2006 at 7:52 am
A good friend of mine in Maine is on staff with his dad. Kinda cool.
7 Linda // Jun 29, 2006 at 9:22 am
Being a male chauvanist is ok(well…tolerable). It’s the male chauvanist pigs I have a problem with!
Besides, you said yourself: “Dude….I’d LOVE to work with him.” But then you said “I’d LIKE to work with her”, so I don’t think you are really a chauvanist.
Now I will be checking back for the female list. You have to know some amazing women.
8 Grant // Jun 29, 2006 at 10:27 am
Dad - I did work with you already. No further comment to avoid civil war! ha ha ha.
Catbird - if you don’t get help from Charter, at get help from somewhere.
Jeremy - I have no pull. You could put my influence in a thimble and have room left over for a tall glass of water.
Paul - Halo? I don’t think so. Halo 2? I’m pretty much worthless.
Linda - great idea for a follow-up post.
Do all of you guys have x-box live?
9 AK // Jun 29, 2006 at 11:07 am
Grant, what is it that makes you think you are worthless at Halo 2?
10 Grant // Jun 29, 2006 at 11:11 am
I don’t know…always being at the bottom of the leaderboard is normally a good indication that what I’m doing isn’t working.
Or it could be that I used to be at the top of the leaderboard with Halo and the fall with Halo 2 was traumatizing to me. (go ahead and correct the spelling on that word, Cat.)
11 wayne // Jun 29, 2006 at 11:34 am
Jer — Grant is just sooo humble. If he really wanted to he could get you here. G–I say go for it! What do you have to lose?
12 Grant // Jun 29, 2006 at 11:37 am
That’s just not even funny.
13 wayne // Jun 29, 2006 at 12:51 pm
I’m laughing.
14 Gman // Jun 30, 2006 at 11:58 am
You always could work with me but than again I might have that famous and Canadian thingie going on.
15 Grant // Jun 30, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Yeah, fess - you would definitely be in the famous category….
I guess I now need to make a famous list…
Actually, what would be funnier is a list of folks, I would NOT work with…
what do you think?
16 Grant // Jun 30, 2006 at 5:41 pm
FYI - Gman is none other that Gerrard Fess - check out my links - he’s on there.
And he is Canadian and a Sox fan, right?
17 zane anderson // Jul 1, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Location shouldn’t really be a problem, especially in warmer climates and seasons. Parks are great and are usually free.
Don’t rule out houses, either. These have served Christians well from the beginning. Godspeed.
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