God wants us fixing what is broken down and restoring it to it's original position.  That is conversion.  God is not just interested in people, he is interested in the culture in which we live.  The church sees pop-culture as the enemy, God sees it as potential.  I love the story of Zacchaeus.  Here is a guy who was caught up in the culture of his day.  He was making money, living the good live, but miserable. Everything changed the day he met Jesus, a true conversionist.  Jesus really asked nothing of Zach, He simply loved him.  The life of Jesus so impressed Zacchaeus that he gave half of everything he had taken unjustly back into the economy.  Have you ever thought how the economy changed in that region? You talk about an economic stimulus plan. Just as a side note, I am looking forward to the economic stimulus check that is to be coming in the mail soon. It's interesting that no matter what a persons political position may be they are not turning down free money.  Oh well back to the story.... when God changed Zacchaeus, God used him to convert the culture around him.  I believe that is what God is doing in our world today through the church.  We must be about doing everything we can to reachout to the culture of our day.  Rather than hating pop-culture why not infuse it with the Love of God?

Dirty Jobs is a program on the Discovery Channel in which host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult, strange, and/or messy occupational duties alongside professional workers. I was thinking about Joseph of Aramathea in the Bible.  This is the prominent business man who came to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus after he had been crucified.  You talk about a dirty job.  Can you imagine what the body of Christ must have looked like, after an endless beating and a horrible crucifixion, not to mention the labor it took for this man to dig out a tomb suitable to put the body in. Joseph literally moved the body of Christ from death to life.  I believe that is exactly what God is calling us to do.  The Bible refers to the church as the Body of Christ.  I believe that the church today is dead when it comes to being relevant with the issues that people are facing in their lives.  Most of us as Christ - followers are comfortable just going to church and living our easy lives, while people around us are hurting.  I don't say that in a judgmental way, because I know it is not something we do intentionally, it's just the sway of they.  It's just the way it is.  I believe that God is looking for people who don't mind getting dirty, people who don't mind reaching down into the muck and mire of humanity and making a difference.  For to long the church has been "STUCK".  But what is it going to take to make a change?  Hard working men and women who are doing what it takes to reach people. If you are going to be a part of moving the Body of Christ for death to life you have to be willing to buy in to it.  It's not easy. How hard was it for Joseph to carve out and dig out a place for the Body of Christ to have a habitation in that city?  How about in your city?  It takes some sweat equity to build a church.  It takes some people willing to role up their sleeves and say, whatever it takes I'm going to do my part. Ministry is a four letter word, "STAY".  Joseph understood if you're going to build a great church you have to stay.  The greatest ability is stick-ability.  You just have to get in, dig it out, and stay.  It's a dirty job.

• What ever is over you head is under His feet 
• If every question has to be answered you'll never do it
• A maybe with God is better than a sure thing from the world
• We are conversionist
• Some visions pull out of you what you cannot give
• You are either changing or dying
• If Chirstians would smile the church would grow
• You cannot change what you are afraid of
• I'd rather be a water walker than a boat talker
• Be aware of your weaknesses 
• You must change before everything around you can change
• Negatives don't define us, they just energize us
• Leaders are Christ driven