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Steve Jobs Delivers 3 Life Lessons on Personal Clarity – Will Mancini.

Profoundly sad, Steve was one of those visionaries like an Edison or DaVinci that leaves a lasting mark on the world. As I was listening to WJR in Detroit this morning, the commentator was contrasting this commencement address about pursuing vision and one’s loves in life with the anarchists who are protesting on Wall Street and soon 124 other locations (including Detroit). He found it inconsistant that the Occupy Wall Street web site calling for workers to rise up and take over factories; students to take over schools; and bring out the collapse of capitalism by the seizure of the assets of the wealthiest 1% are also asking for free food, sleeping bags, and cell phones be given to them. Never mind they are products made by that 1% who have created the corporations and the jobs for the workers. Not to say that all corporations are fair or that there are not greedy billionaires. But what Occupy Wall Street is calling for is in stark contrast to this commencement address and the Jobs own story.

What does this say to the church and its leaders? Its said that Jobs was nominally Lutheran and doubtless a few hell-concerned bloggers will go down that road to offer pronouncements on his salvation – that’s not our calling. That’s God’s. What we can take from it is that if you engage in what you truly love, if you are passionately in love with Christ and his people, Jesus’ promise that his church will do greater things than he did will come to pass. Busted institutions – denominations and congregations – can be healed or will need to die – only to rise again to something new, much like NeXT turning into Mac OS X.

It was good to watch this video again – its a reminder of why I am still a pastor, even after coming very close to walking away. Love and failure go hand in hand and make for something better than success – a real life.

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