Creativity

At the conference this past week, I realized how contagious creativity is... When I was in the room with so many creative people, I began to think things and conjure ideas that I wouldn't have thought of in any other outlet.

I was talking to a friend of mine for a good-while the other night about creativity. She and I discussed the powerful mark that it will have on the Church of our generation. I listened to her broad and beautiful dreams, and she listened to mine, and even then, creativity was bouncing off of each other... I think that's what's so powerful about creativity, that is, how it flows between trains of thought of different people, and how it is then reciprocated one to another.

Pastor David said something to me the other day in regards to being creative, he said "Dayne, don't think that your not creative, creativity has nothing to do with being artsy, having an eye for design or visual intrigue, but creativity only has to do with a persons ability to CREATE... And don't you forget that God, the creator of creativity, is living in you and through you."

God created us to create... We are all creative genius' in our own facets, the question is: will we apply ourselves? When I arrived in Charlotte, I didn't understand that. I thought that opportunities would just be handed to me, but what I failed to understand and what God has shown me is this simple truth, and as you read it, if you forget everything else in this article, remember this:

Opportunities aren't given to ANYone but should CREATED by SOMEone!

I'm in the middle of a Church plant here! Of course there wouldn't be much here for me when I moved here, but that's what I've had to do...CREATE!!!! And if that's all that I've learned since coming here, than I consider it more than worthwhile.

So whatever your strengths or weaknesses are, kick doubt and fear to the curb and GO CREATE!