So you’ve spent hours and hours planning for your big event…it was going to be awesome…amazing…life changing…and it bombs!  Big time!  Your worship leader gets diagnosed with strep throat  and cancels two hours before your event…the major actor in your drama forgets his lines…you find out after it’s too late that there’s a major concert at the school and half the youth group doesn’t show up…they yawn through the message you spent hours preparing…you name it…

I’ve had a million bombs and I have learned that when things bomb in your eyes, they did not nearly as much bomb in everybody else’s eyes.  I’m always the one who set the bomb way bigger than everybody else…and the Enemy is always faithful to send some blessed leader around that makes some sarcastic comment or a couple of kids that walk past and make some dumb comment.  Because our Enemy delights in making sure the wrong people are forever giving me feedback at that moment.

I think the message that’s communicated is that you tried.  I don’t think people hold it against you when you are trying to do something special and it just doesn’t do well.  I’ve also learned that when I question whether or not something is going to go across well, I just call a couple of my key kids and they save me from some bombs.  They tell me whether something is going to be cool.  I can’t tell you how many times these kids have told me, “That’s not cool.”  So I tell them what I’m trying to get to and ask them to tell me what I could do to make it cool.

If you have a bomb, congratulations!  Just remember Thomas Edison who failed hundreds of times before he finally got the light bulb to work.  Each of those flops he never considered a failure because it was just figuring out one more thing that didn’t work.  Over 40 years of ministry…I have a long list of things that didn’t work!  God is not looking for perfect people, but He’s looking for people that care enough about His Kingdom, His purposes and His call, that they refuse to quit.