Where You Place Your Love

Here's a quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

"If you love the vision you have for community, you will destroy community. If you love the people around you, you will create community."

 Saw this at Cerulean Sanctum, Dan Edelen's web site.  Dan goes on to generalize Bonhoeffer's concept:

I think this can be distilled into a generalization that always works:  If you love the vision you have for {desired ministry outcome}, you will destroy {desired ministry outcome}. If you love the people around you, you will create {desired ministry outcome}.

Think about it:  If you love being missional, if you love being reformed, if you love being "naturly supernatural," if you love being emerging, if you love being relevant, etc, you may destroy what you love.  I guess the best thing is to just love God and love people.  BTW, didn't Jesus say something about that?

(Picture above from Nate Spencer's Site)