I just got off the phone with one of those ministry placement organizations. Before you jump to conclusions, I didn’t call them, they called me. I don’t know how he got my number but he wanted to talk to me regarding my level of satisfaction at my current church and to ask if I would be interested in pursuing a lead pastor role at a church in Tenn. It sounded like an attractive church. They have 1500 people in a young progressive church. He asked me what my interest level would bein pursuing this opportunity. 
It felt great to say that I have absolutely no interest in pursuing any other opportunities. I am so jacked up about leading Lifepoint church. I am jacked up about the people that are discovering hope and life at Lifepoint. I am jacked up about the team that I get to work with. Our staff is awesome. I am jacked up about the fact that we can bring the authenticy and hope of Jesus to Wilmington. I am jacked up about the fact that we are living a dream that only God can get the credit for. I am jacked about the fact that I get jacked up everytime I get to tell our story. I still get goosebumps telling it. I am jacked up about the future that lays ahead of us. I love uncertainty. I’m weird. I know. I am jacked up about the fact that I have seen a transformation in people I have known my whole life. I am jacked up about the fact that I am having lunch with a guy who said through the tears Sunday, “I thought God was done with me, and today I realized He’s not.” I am jacked up about the fact that I have an amazing wife who is a God lover first, wife second, and mom third who just so happens to serve along side of me and doesn’t feel the pressure to step into the limelight. I am jacked up about the fact that this weekend we prayed for over 600 people who are being invited to Lifepoint this weekend for Friend Day(Get your friends here this Sunday. I don’t care what you have to do to get them here…just do it!). I am jacked up about pastoring a Church where I can be me. This list could go on for a while.
To make a long story short my answer to pursuing another ministry opportunity was “NO WAY JOSE!”
Oh yeah…point people to life…and you’ll be jacked up to.
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jeffkapusta.com » Blog Archive » From my wife. added these kind words on Oct 01 07 at 7:57 amJoe added these kind words on Oct 31 06 at 3:27 pmThat jack looks like it would hurt!
A “young, progressive church” with 1500 members but no pastor? Hmmm . . . something smells rotten in that wood shed.
George added these kind words on Oct 31 06 at 7:21 pmI didn’t realize that there is a church placement service that looks for pastors. Where does God fit into the plan. I like the idea that God calls men to the ministry and that there is not a need for a church placement group to make decisions for God. Your BLOG spells out why God chose you to come to Wilmington. If God decides to call you somewhere else, you will also know that the calling is from God. I really appreciate the comment about Michelle not wanting to step into the limelight. You are so blessed to have a wife who God has called with you to this ministry and she is such an example of what God expects as a “Help Mate” and truly shows what God means by a submissive and Godly woman.
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Eddie added these kind words on Nov 01 06 at 9:58 pmI am all jacked up about…fresh starts…renewed relationship…regained hope…redeemed life…and a rediscovered friendship with a faithful old friend…Jesus!
Shannon added these kind words on Sep 30 07 at 7:12 pmI would like to put into question the fact that you say your “wife who is a God lover first, wife second, and mom third”, to quote you. If you prioritize those things in that order that is really too bad. Connecting with God and being a mother are of equal priority and go hand-in-hand. Raising your children should be prioritized first, before your husband or wife. I wonder if your wife really puts you, as a husband, before her responsibility as a mother; and if she does, she needs to look within herself for her own answers from God rather than rely on religions who place women in the position of being submissive to their husbands, rather than their equal, or any man, rather than relying on her own ability to think and decide for herself. If you define women as being Godly by how submissive they are to their husbands how does that allow women to put God first when they are too busy focusing on putting a man first and listening to him rather than listening to God. How are women suppose to know who they are if they define themselves by men, who place women beneath men, rather than finding their own answers to God and who they are as a person.
jeffkapusta added these kind words on Sep 30 07 at 7:30 pmShannon
You obviously have some issues if you derived all that from my comment about my wife. Sounds like you have been hurt pretty bad by religion. Sorry if thats the case.
jill added these kind words on Sep 30 07 at 8:09 pmShannon you do not Michelle at all. She knows full well who God has made her. She is an amazing woman who is after God’s own heart. If you spent even 10 minutes with her you would know her heart and priorities are straight. It is unfair for you to pass judgment on someone you do not even know.
Michelle added these kind words on Sep 30 07 at 8:18 pmSweet, people are arguing over me…wow I feel special!!
I do, however, put my relationship with my husband over my relationship with my kids. Don’t get me wrong, I love my kids to death and have a great relationship with them, but I know, in the end, my kids will leave, and if I have poured all my energy and time into them, and not put as much, or more energy into my husband, we will have nothing. We will have an empty nest and an empty marriage. Not the happily ever after I dream of. So I will continue to have a date night with my husband, I will continue to put my kids to bed at 730 so I can have the evening with my husband, and I’ll keep putting God first, husband 2nd and kids 3rd.
rebekah added these kind words on Sep 30 07 at 9:23 pmi think when you are in tune with God in putting him first, then your family and ministry will all fall into place. of course they all go hand in hand- that’s the thing about having a relationship with God- everything we do and say is filtered thru that, and when we put God first our priorities should line up with what he tells us in his Word that He wants them to look like. by no means, should a woman lose her identity unable to think for herself and live in the shadows, but being a submissive, help-mate of a wife is just biblical and Godly, and I believe there’s so much joy in that. i think it makes God smile. for people struggling with their place as a woman in the workforce, in their family, in ministry, and learning how to balance it all- a great book by Shirin Tabor is “Wanting all the right things”.
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