Everybody, Always

don’t need to spend as much time as we do telling people what we think
about what they’re doing. Loving people doesn’t mean we need to control
their conduct. There’s a big difference between the two. Loving people
means caring without an agenda. As soon as we have an agenda, it’s not
love anymore. It’s acting like you care to get someone to do what you
want or what you think God wants them to do. Do less of that, and people
will see a lot less of you and more of Jesus.
Talk behind each other’s backs constantly. Just talk about the right
stuff. Talk about Jesus. Talk about grace. Talk about love and acceptance.
People don’t grow where they are informed; they grow where they’re
loved and accepted. Talk about who people are becoming and who you
see them turning into. And give people medals, lots of them. The people
around us should be walking around looking like the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. They should jingle when they walk.
It’s this simple: I want people to meet you and me and feel like
they’ve just met everyone in heaven.