life goals and life group

Our life group met tonight.  That’s how we spend a usual Thursday night at the Sublett ranch–hanging out with friends, usually talking about a passage of scripture or a chapter of a book we’re reading together, eating, laughing, praying…

Tonight we talked about our life goals.  I’ve never been good at defining my goals.  It could be my personality, it could be how I’ve ben shaped as I’ve grown up, it might be complacency, or it could be fear.  But the bottom line is that I’ve got to make some changes in the way I approach life.

Mark Batterson describes the kind of life that I’ve been living as playing defense.  It’s not that I’m a bad guy, unmotivated, lazy, unambitious…it’s just that my default mode seems to have landed in reactive verses pro-active.  The time has come for a fundamental change.  I’ve got to start playing offense with my life!

I made my preliminary list of life goals.  Tonight I shared most of them with our life group as we talked around our living room.  I’m going to re-visit that list, refine and reshape it.  Onc e the list gets massaged into a list I think is good/right, I’m going to print it and hang it somewhere that I see it every day.

If you’re looking for some life goal help, click on over to Batterson’s blog and start reading, praying, and dreaming.

How about you?  Are you playing offense with your life?