NOTE: most of this post first appeared in March of 2007 but continues to speak truth. Push me. Drive me. Give me something to live for. That is what lots of church people expect from their leaders. Yet God has not called your church or mine to meet all the needs and not even to feed you spiritual. God calls us to help people learn to eat spiritually, to love God and to chase after Him. I am greatly challenged by Mark Batterson of National Community Church in DC. His book In the Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day is an in-depth look at vision and gives clarity to people looking to God and who desire to be part of a purpose driven adventure that only God could put together. In that book Batterson gave us what he called the Manifesto : Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. Set God-sized goals. Pursue God-ordained passions. Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine interve...