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Steve and I have been back in Ohio for about 40 days now, and it’s impossible to miss the buzz centering around the 2013 Buckeye football team and their theme this year, “The Chase”.

Urban Meyer, the Buckeye head football coach, explains how they are relating this concept to their journey as a team.  On one hand the team feels as if they are on the chase, in order to catch up to their opponents.  Last year’s bowl ban eliminated 15 practices the buckeyes could have had; the team feels like it is starting the 2013 season behind teams who were able to have the extra time on the field.

Coach Meyer also explains that many on the team are pursuing goals like; starting spots, a bowl game, or perhaps even an NFL contract. I think everyone would agree that they are chasing a National Championship.  Whichever way you look at it, THE CHASE IS ON!

Dictionary.com had two similar definitions of chase.

1) To pursue in order to seize, overtake, etc.: The police officer chased the thief.

2) To follow or devote one’s attention to with the hope of attracting, winning, gaining, etc.: He chased her for three years before she consented to marry him.

One definition gives the image of catching something trying to get away and the other is about working at a goal or a dream.

Steve and I are feeling this same urgency!

As we dive further into church planting we see that we too are on “The Chase”.  We are both chasing after a culture who is running further and further away from God, hoping to catch them with the love of God and a message that will cause them to stop running long enough to hear the hope they could have in Christ.

And we are also chasing after a goal of starting a church that reaches the lost. Steve and I are noticing how people keep running to things they think will give them peace, or purpose. King Solomon, in the book of Ecclesiastes, calls it chasing the wind.

We have a goal of introducing church in a new way for many people.  We hope to shatter the misconception that God and the Bible are both boring and irrelevant.  We see an opportunity to help people experience the power and love of a very real God.

This excites us.  We see the hard work ahead and just like the Buckeyes, we are getting in shape for game day.

Do you have any Kingdom minded aspirations?  We all need to chase after something that will reach those who don’t know Christ.

If you don’t have any God centered goals right now, set one.  Do that thing, or start that ministry God has placed on your heart.  It doesn’t have to be as big as planting a church.  If it’s from God it will have eternal effects!

The chase is on!  Let’s do this thing together!!



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