Pooling or scattering?
I was talking to a dear friend, whom I’m getting to know better and better, and we accidentally came across an expression for something we both found to be true. It goes like this: “God pools [people] for training, but scatters for mission.” I think this is very true. We need to be better at finding out whether God wants us to learn, or whether he wants us to go out and do stuff.
We can easily miss on both. We’re sometimes inclined to think that it’s a waste of resources to pool a bunch of highly competent people in one place. But I think it’s absolutely vital to get a big enough momentum, in order to be able to really change things.
The other big temptation is to never scatter, just keep holding all the good stuff in one place. At some point mature Christians, or mature whatever, have to scatter and plant something of their own. This goes for family, this goes for church, this goes for a lot of things.
The key is to know what phase you’re in. Is it a time of pooling or scattering?
Me, husband, father of three, 
