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A Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kick to the Face

18th March
2008
written by mburleson

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I just finished re-reading the Phil Vischer blog post about “The Fall of the Big Idea“.. no not this Big Idea..

Phil’s story, which is also told in full in his book, always makes me re-evaluate what’s going on. It makes me want to ask the questions: What am I doing? Why am I doing it? What did I mean to be doing? Am I sure? God? Bueller?

We get so busy going about what we think we should be doing, we forget about going about doing what Christ wants us to do. Is that site really that important? How about those two Equallogic SANs I just got approved and purchased? Why are we doing that program? Hey, I’m just as guilty.

Phil’s story relates just as much on a business/ministry front as it does in our personal lives. (I really almost typed spiritual lives there, but like Rob Bell says, everything is spiritual… we cannot separate the two parts out.. spiritual and non-spiritual.)

Are we reaching out to our communities and the neighbors down the road? How are we interacting with our family members? Are we really letting the Christ IN us affect our OUTward lives?

It’s really like a roundhouse kick in the face by !Chuck thinking about it and taking it to heart and seeking God.

Thoughts?

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2 Comments

  1. Ruth S
    19/03/2008

    !chuck

    Thanks for the big idea link–I hadn’t heard the news..

  2. Marc Farley
    19/03/2008

    Hi Mark,

    I never knew what happened to Veggie Tales and Big Idea. Now I know, although it was a little painful to read. Phil’s story is a great example of how things can get out of control. I’m not sure where Rhema is at in its growth, but it appears you are questioning the changes you are making there and are wondering if they are good ones or not. It’s always hard to tell when you are in the thick of change.

    On the technology side of things, EqualLogic storage will help you get control of your environment by being easy to administer. But please contact tech support as often as you like for help and or understanding of how to make it work best for you. It doesn’t matter what the question is, we want to hear from you and we want you to feel in control.

    As for expanses, there is the cost of the system, which might be worrisome to you. The good news is that there aren’t going to be hidden add-on costs for software features. Unlike Phil’s story where costs for projects tripled over a couple years, your storage costs won’t increase unless you outgrow the system you have and you need to add another. Again, that’s another reason to call into tech support so you can create a plan to control storage costs. There is a feature called thin provisioning that can help you get more bang for your buck, but you want to understand how to manage it before implementing.

    We want to help you feel comfortable and in control of storage and data growth. We can’t help you slow down data growth necessarily but we can help you feel a lot better about how you deal with it. We like to think you made a good purchase and we want you to know we stand behind our products with excellent service.

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