No new post again this week as I'm in crunch time prepping for Momentum.  But in the meantime, I thought I'd repost one of my most famous blog posts ever, from back in 2012.  Understanding this concept has made the biggest difference in my life and I hope it can do the same for you.  And I'll still be on Periscope today at 12:30 pm EST for another ASK ME ANYTHING scope.

“Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another.”  Acts 15:39

In the book of Acts, chapter 15, we have the story of one of the great disputes in church history.  The great apostle Paul got into a disagreement with his fellow worker Barnabas – who just happened to be his mentor as well.  The disagreement occurred as the two of them were about to set sail on a pastoral journey to visit the churches which they had already established.

The dispute was over the presence of another apostle on the trip – St. Mark, the writer of the second gospel.  At the time, Mark was still young and not quite ready for some of the rigors of the mission field.  He was still a work in progress at the time the story takes place.