Comments on: fakeNaked Show 2 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1725 david hayward is an artist trapped inside an pastor's body Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:44:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: nakedpastor http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1725#comment-31948 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:14:28 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1725#comment-31948 ah... todd.... another with sarcasm. welcome! ah… todd…. another with sarcasm. welcome!

]]> by: Todd Pruitt http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1725#comment-31943 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:55:50 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1725#comment-31943 Great satire of the inner workings of the liberal mind. "I need money but money is really icky." "I'm a feminist." Funny stuff! Great satire of the inner workings of the liberal mind. “I need money but money is really icky.” “I’m a feminist.” Funny stuff!

]]> by: matte http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1725#comment-29020 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:06:01 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1725#comment-29020 Nice to see your smiling faces again. Great topic! I have been thinking and learning about this in the past few years as well. As a creative person, I find that I do not fit into this 9 - 5 career-oriented working world all that well, and I have ceased trying to. I was talking to a fellow writer about success a few years ago and we realised that subconsciously, we were buying into the myth that being published equals success. I changed my attitude then and there. To me, being a success as a writer is telling a story that is worth telling. Who listens and hears...well, that is not my primary responsibility. I try to speak clearly and consistently and make my words available, but marketing is not what I am called to; I am called to tell the story. To quote John: he who has ears to hear... Another thing I am learning just in the past few months is that I must value what I do and who I am. If I don't, how will anyone else? All this effort at writing and creating is precious and worth something and merits devotion and development and discipline (hey, that sounds like a nifty outline for a self-help book). It is my responsibilty to be generous with my abilities, and then I must in turn give people the chance to be generous to me as well. Ultimately, I look to God to supply everything that I need. I cannot put my expectations in people's response as that is setting my hope far too low. I agree with Richard: if we are truly ourselves and do not hold back in our passion for the things that are important to us, we will come away with a purer artform, personality, story, etc. and this will be more attractive than any clever scheme to get people to come to us. Nice to see your smiling faces again. Great topic! I have been thinking and learning about this in the past few years as well. As a creative person, I find that I do not fit into this 9 - 5 career-oriented working world all that well, and I have ceased trying to. I was talking to a fellow writer about success a few years ago and we realised that subconsciously, we were buying into the myth that being published equals success. I changed my attitude then and there. To me, being a success as a writer is telling a story that is worth telling. Who listens and hears…well, that is not my primary responsibility. I try to speak clearly and consistently and make my words available, but marketing is not what I am called to; I am called to tell the story. To quote John: he who has ears to hear…

Another thing I am learning just in the past few months is that I must value what I do and who I am. If I don’t, how will anyone else? All this effort at writing and creating is precious and worth something and merits devotion and development and discipline (hey, that sounds like a nifty outline for a self-help book). It is my responsibilty to be generous with my abilities, and then I must in turn give people the chance to be generous to me as well. Ultimately, I look to God to supply everything that I need. I cannot put my expectations in people’s response as that is setting my hope far too low.

I agree with Richard: if we are truly ourselves and do not hold back in our passion for the things that are important to us, we will come away with a purer artform, personality, story, etc. and this will be more attractive than any clever scheme to get people to come to us.

]]> by: Nate Peres http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1725#comment-28967 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:12:28 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1725#comment-28967 While listining to the two of you talk in the beginning, it was very much reminiscent of days in the institutionalized church. Marketing yourselves to get your message out. I believe if God wants someone to go to your sites, or offer you speaking gigs, he will make it happen. With or without you. I guess that is what I feel is different about our movement. We try to follow God, and allow him to lead. Instead of us trying to do things for him. Get our beliefs out there for people to see the way. Maybe that is just where God has ME. Maybe he is asking you to do something else. While listining to the two of you talk in the beginning, it was very much reminiscent of days in the institutionalized church. Marketing yourselves to get your message out. I believe if God wants someone to go to your sites, or offer you speaking gigs, he will make it happen. With or without you. I guess that is what I feel is different about our movement. We try to follow God, and allow him to lead. Instead of us trying to do things for him. Get our beliefs out there for people to see the way. Maybe that is just where God has ME. Maybe he is asking you to do something else.

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