A new year is a great time to renew old commitments and begin new journeys.  I am not much for resolutions…they always fail.  But I am for new challenges.  When a one fails in a challenge there is much to learn and the option to go for it another time.  Blogging is a challenge for me, to find the time and consistency, but I feel it is something I need to do and want to continue doing. 

 To meet this new challenge I have shut down my Total Truth blog and will focus on Total Leadership and a new group blog at www.nwagospeloutpost.wordpress.com  Total Leader will continue to focus on issues and I will tackle my SBC Leadership Issues here as well.  The Gospel Outpost is a strictly a blog designed to apply theology to life.  I guess this is my new life slogan….applying all of theology to all of life. 

There are two inherent dangers addressed in this slogan.  First…to have any theology that is not applied to life is too have a dead theology.  Second….to live life without theology is to drift in the waves of nihilism.  So there it is.  To be a solid leader one must apply all of theology to all of life.  To do this, one must know theology.  You cannot apply what you don’t have.  Second, one must be willing to face the truth and allow the truth to change them.  Isn’t this the hardest thing to do…to change?  As leaders we want everyone else to change…but am I willing to change, are you willing to change?

Where am I going with this?  Well, my goal in 2007 on this blog is to present a theology of leadership.  I pray that many of you will go on this journey with me.