What’s The Craziest Dream You Have Chased After?
That is my office.
It all fit in a wheelbarrow.
It used to be in that room behind the wheelbarrow.
I’m actually doing this.
Like seriously.
Chasing dreams.
It’s about a 50/50 split.
Half the people tell me they are pumped and inspired to see me chase my dreams and the other half tell me that I’m crazy for leaving an organization of this caliber in the midst of our economic climate.
That sentence was way too long.
Me?
Well I am just doing what God is calling me to do so they are both right.
I’m crazy in love with God’s dream He has placed in my life.
What is the last crazy dream you have chased?
And if you have not, what will it be?
Los
RAIN IT DOWN
being a husband, then being a dad.
then being your friend.
My last crazy dream was leaving my job in defense contracting to work full time for a church (the pay raise was amazing). I went from part-time to full-time with the church, but left my previous job right when my wife and I were about to start making mortgage payments on our new house.
I haven't chased my new crazy dream yet because I'm still finding out if it's God's or mine
my current life
leaving my job to start seminary in september. wow, writing that sentence out was a little scary just now…
Now that my friend, is a crazy a$$ dream. And it came true!!!
Atta boy.
It is probably both.
I hope so. But watch out if it is because I'll be hitting you up for SPD knowledge
SWEET!!!!
I did the same thing–left a good, stable job–on April 3 and then launched my own firm on April 6. Several "friends" told me such a move would be idiotic and not to do it. So did a high-priced consultant. I gave them all the figurative middle finger and decided to stop working for others and work for myself, so that I could counsel and advocate for others.
I love it.
But, I work way harder than I ever have.
Yea. I am about to work my tail off.
3 things…
1. when i was fired from an internship at a huge church because i was depressed and unhealthy i dreamt that God actually wanted to use me and that hearing sayonara from a church of that 'caliber' didn't even come close to ending what God had. so i dove into loving Jesus. reading my bible everyday, going to counseling…exposing the most hidden areas of my heart, dreaming of when i would God would allow me to rise again.
2. my wife and i dreamt of the possibility of an existing church birthing an emergent church, so we sold our house, moved into our pastors' home to save money and served 'alter' until the mother church put the kabash on the dream…
3. the culmination of these dreams was that God had better things for us, but sometimes it requires stepping out of leadership to get to a place you will be able to lead, so we sold everything we had and moved to CO to go to the New Life School of Worship. i dreamt that by humbling ourselves to learn, we would someday teach…
all this lead us to Georgia. and the dream is dreaming.
Moving to Milwaukee with my wife – chasing after the possibility of a church on fire for Christ.
Leaving family. Leaving friends. Leaving denomination. Leaving the known.
or.
Deciding to have baby #2.
I haven't decided which is crazier yet. I'll let you know in a couple weeks…
Milwaukee is an AWESOME city! God's blessings as he uses you for the Kingdom there.
Well, this is kinda one of those things that for me, the only thing I can say is,
Stay tuned.
OK. Now I'm curious.
And, for what it's worth – Crazy and Inspiring often walk hand in hand.
Oh I dunno…Leaving my nearly 6 figure job to study theology and become a pastor/worship leader kinda guy…..and in the meantime, have a wife enlist in the Army and move to Germany. Yeah, I think that wraps it up
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wow…
Yea. That is crazy.
moving to central mexico right after college to be a missionary and a teacher, when i'd never studied any kind of education! then, two years later, moving to canada to do something similar. now, i'm 25 and have yet to get a "real" job, but i wouldn't trade my life for anything!
complete grad school and get licensed as a counselor to assist my Dad's dream of starting up a low income counseling center and a ministry assistance program for ministers who are burned out or struggling to swim.
My wife and I quit our jobs, sold our house in So Cal and moved to Baja Mexico to serve in a Christian orphanage and found a free medical clinic fourteen months ago–with a two-year-old. Since then we've had another kid (3 months old), which makes us even more insane. Most people think we're weird or foolish or both–it is comforting to see from these posts that there are other crazy dreamers willing to follow the Lord wherever He may lead… I was starting to feel like we were the only ones!
leaving my hometown, a good job, an awesome church, and a great group of friends to do what God called and chose me to do and move to Boston and help start a church and change the world! Which I am gearing up to do in the next year.
Carlos…
I am with you… chasing it right now. On the day my moving truck was coming (2 weeks ago) so i could move my family to Auburn, AL., I came home from a meeting and told my wife that we were not moving. I am now chasing a dream with something that could literally change not only my life but the lives of so many others.
The largest advertising agency in the country in the food industry has a product to study culture and they want to open that product up to faith communities and churches. And they have chosen me!?! This is a process they have used with clients like Pepsi, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Sam's Club. For some reason I was the person chosen to help take it to the church. CultureWaves will have a huge impact… but for now it seems like I am crazy to make that change on the day the moving truck was coming and when I had such a great opportunity where I was going.
Follow your dreams or you are living a nightmare!!!
My crazy dream…
Going back into youth ministry after 8 years as a senior pastor. Many say I'm taking a "step back." The pay certainly isn't very good, and the future isn't clear, BUT I know this is what God wants me to do.
My crazy dream…
Going back into youth ministry after 8 years as a senior pastor. Many say I'm taking a "step back." The pay certainly isn't very good, and the future isn't clear, BUT I know this is what God wants me to do.
Oh, also wanting to add to our family when we have no money and live in a two bedroom apartment… now, THAT'S crazy!
Leaving my job on Thursday to do missions in the Dominican Republic and then only God knows.
Independent adoption in Rwanda!!
I'm still in the middle of the chase…
I'm almost 46 years old and just learning to chase dreams. Some people are slow learners (or listeners) I happen to be one of them. Right now I hear God telling me to write. Makes no sense to me and isn't really a risk (except to my ego – which could probably use a good knocking around, truth be told). But it is a dream none the less. I truly admire you, Los, for the amazing example of wide open obedience. Praying for you and can't wait to tag along on your adventure!
Living in a tiny trailer with our three kids while we built our own house. The dream was to build it, sell it, get out of debt. It's been three years since we started and we're so close to the getting out of debt part, it makes my stomach leap!
Mine will be attempting to land a job with North Point after finishing seminary. I've got zero connections there and have no idea if I measure up to their off-the-charts hiring standards but hey, it's worth a shot.
The chase is just beginning. Three more weeks until I leave a church staff to chase the dream/call of planting a church. This dream has been growing for a couple of years until we knew we had to chase it and see what God does.
Meeting my *now* fiance in Dec, getting engaged in March, married in October // taking on a kid // and moving to Orlando to help plant a church without a guaranteed position!
Mine was wanting to play drums for the church praise team. I was 34 at the time and had never played the drums before (though I was sure I could). That was December of 2004. In May of 2005, there I was, up on stage playing 'Forever.'
1. God getting a hold of my life and calling me away from professional BMX racing. Instead of my plans, he gave me his by calling me to serve him with everything I have.
2. Dropping out of college because He was calling me to something else. Being a part of a church plant.
There have been several times in my life when I did what I felt God directed and it logically didn't make sense or I had alot of people tell me I would fail. (always a nice touch) But you just know when God is calling you. Right now is one of those times. There are a couple of crazy dreams on my heart:
1) To train indigenous worship leaders in developing countries, giving them encouragement and resources. BTW, this not only pays nada, but costs a bundle! How to deal with that is a big question for me right now. But I continue to pray that God will open the doors for me to travel and teach.
2) To have a book published called "Beautifully Broken" and to take the contents of this book and develop times of teaching and ministry for ministry leaders. I'd love to just spend evenings or weekends with leaders, ministering to them and giving them an opportunity to worship and spend healing time with other leaders and with God.
These two ideas just won't leave my heart so I'm in the middle of working on both of them.
My book and full-time missions. Still chasing.
Love it…I'm mid-chasing…left job after 10 years in cushy corporate job to plant a church w/closest friends…you can't turn down the volume on a God call…
Well, after 6 successful years at a large Christian ministry in a pretty secure job, I quit last January to go back to school to get my MBA in Health Care Mgmt, a field in which I have little experience. But I have a passion for senior adults, so I thought the degree would help. Since then, I found a part-time job & was laid off after a year, and am now trying to find a job & wondering what I really want to do with my life. It’s a work in process still…
The craziest dream I ever chased (so far) was starting an eCommerce site selling baseball cards. It worked. But it was MY dream. Three months after officially launching, I started hearing small voices in my head saying, "This isn't what you're supposed to be doing." Truth is, they were there all along. I just wouldn't hear any of it. So I wasted lots of time, money and energy building something (massive collection / inventory and a spiffy little website) that wasn't what God had in mind for me. That's crazy!!
My crazy dream is to write books. Even though I have taken very small baby steps toward doing so, I still sometimes question if it is a dream God inspired or my own self-seeking desires.
I've chased lots of dreams, craziest one went to Hong Kong with like no money and lived in one room with 9 rotating strangers to try and get a job as a journalist. I'd done an expensive course beforehand and everything. It didn't work and I ended up handing out leaflets and delivering sandwiches. C'est la vie. It was a hard knock and a hard time, I was so poor, skinny and hungry by the time I actually did give up
Now I'm living my GOD-given dream (not my own) of becoming a child counsellor / therapist. One more year to go and it is taking everything out of me, but it's so worth it because it's God's dream for me. The journo thing was all me, so that's why it didn't work!! I have never been so fulfilled in any other work I've done.
I have a dream of being the worship leader at Buckhead. Maybe I should chase that dream?
Someone already chased that deam though.
pursuing a career in sports ministry. i have recently felt called and am still trying to figure everything out but that will be the craziest thing I have ever chased after because I have no idea where God is taking me
It’s a toss up between:
a) leaving my good life in LA in 2001 to be a missionary overseas,
b) leaving what I thought was my new life-calling of overseas missions after only a year and a half to come home and heal some serious brokenness that was keeping me ineffective on the field,
c) leaving my just-starting-to-get-better life in LA (which included a great job offer) in 2004 to plant a church in Nashville (which fell apart a year later)
d) run full-out after addiction recovery in 2007 (still chasing, still recovering),
and
e) remaining in Nashville to continue working with my recovery peeps and my church — and what I still feel is my “calling,” whatever that is, to Nashville — even though I’m nearly 7 months unemployed and every door I knock on (or bang on) gets slammed in my face. I have no idea what I’m supposed to be doing next; what dream God has for me right now. I’m just trying to keep on doing the next right thing in front of me and hope eventually it will all make sense.
I wish I had a grand dream like you, Los. I’ve always wanted something like that. But my dreams always seem to come in little waves, one after another. And I don’t know what it is, or that it even exists, until it’s washing back down the beach, burying my feet a little deeper in the sand while simultaneously trying to drag me back out to sea with it.
getting laid off and then deciding to start a consulting gig with my wife. i can't believe somedays the doors that have been opened by word of mouth and referrals. thank God for all those brand evangelists.
Becoming a Christian at the age of 23, and taking a dive head first into a world that I didn't know. Who is He and why do I feel Him in everything that I do??? This, to some may not sound like a crazy dream to chase after, but to me it was the most insane thing I had ever done. At the time, I didn't know Jesus, and I sure didn't know what it meant to live my life for Him. I heard His call and decided that this was something I had to chase after. It's been 4 and a half years since I started to follow this dream, and I tell you with all that I have that it was the easiest and best decision I have ever made.
Trusting God for reconciliation between me and my ex-wife
Wow, kind of needed to hear this today. Hubby just got laid off from his third job in less then 3 years. This time we said maybe God is calling him to do something diifferent. He's a senior pastor at a small urban church. Not much pay in it hence the other job. Now we are wondering if he is suppose to work his own business so that he can "make" his own hours thereby giving more time to the church without straining them financially. The scarest part for us is the health/life insurance.
After spending thousand of dollars on my masters degree in Justice Administration. Leaving my job as a Program manager in corrections in CO to start my own organization for children of Incarcerated Parents back home in one of the deadest cities on the planet! Chasing my dream of saving my community that doesnt want to be saved, with NO MONEY in less than 2 months! CRAZY, BUT SUCH IS FAITH! Im in good company though =)