Overcoming Your Shadow Mission
By John Ortberg
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John Ortberg
John Ortberg es el pastor principal de la Iglesia Presbiteriana de Menlo Park, en Menlo Park, California, con dependencias en Menlo Park, Mountain View y San Mateo. Ha escrito numerosas obras que han tenido una gran aceptación, como La fe y la duda; El ser que quiero ser; Un amor más allá de la razón; Cuando el juego termina, todo regresa a la caja; La misión fantasma; Dios está más cerca de lo que crees; Todos somos normales hasta que nos conocen; La vida que siempre has querido; Si quieres caminar sobre las aguas, tienes que salir de la barca; Vivamos divinamente la vida, y el plan de estudios multimedia Old Testament Challenge (con la colaboración de Kevin Harney). John y su esposa Nancy tienen tres hijos.
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Overcoming Your Shadow Mission - John Ortberg
Also by John Ortberg
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The Life You've Always Wanted
Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
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Living the God Life
God Is Closer Than You Think
When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box
Faith and Doubt
Overcoming Your Shadow Mission
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Copyright © 2008 by John Ortberg
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Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530
ISBN 0-310-30899-2
Portions of this book first appeared in When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box, © John Ortberg, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2007.
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, Today's New International Version®. TNIV®. Copyright 2002, 2004 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
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Overcoming Your Shadow Mission
LEADERSHIP LIBRARY
The purpose of the Leadership Library is to provide leaders in all arenas—churches, businesses, schools, or nonprofits—with the cutting-edge thinking and the practical advice they need to take their leadership skills to the next level.
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Overcoming Your Shadow Mission
Everybody—every human being on earth—has a mission. We were all put here for a purpose. Organizations like businesses, churches, and schools have them too. Leaders love to think about mission, love to cast vision for the mission, love to strategize about mission, love to achieve mission, love to celebrate mission.
And everybody has a shadow mission. Our lives, and the lives of the groups we're part of, can drift into the pursuit of something unworthy and dark. To give in to our shadow mission is—or should be—our greatest fear. To overcome our shadow mission is what this book is about. But I'm getting ahead of the story.
A few years ago a friend talked me into going on one of those discover-the-wild-inner-hairy-warrior-within-you men's weekends. It was held at a remote and primitive quasi-military campground. I could tell you where it was, but then I'd have to kill you. We arrived in darkness. Silent men with flashlights who had watched Apocalypse Now once too often led us wordlessly to a processing room. Our duffel bags were searched, and all prohibited items (snacks, reading materials, signal flares) were confiscated. We were assigned numbers that were to be used instead of our names to identify us through most of the weekend.
We chanted. We marched unclad through the snow. For two days we ate bark and berries. We were sleep deprived. We howled at the moon. We sat on our haunches in a Chippewa warrior teepee/sauna purifying our souls in the glandular fellowship of sweat, thirty men evaporating in a space no more than six sane Chippewa warriors would have tried to crowd into.
But strangely enough, in the middle of all the psychobabble and melodrama came moments of unforgettable insight. One of the topics we covered at this retreat was how we were created for a mission. This was familiar territory. Then one speaker said something that stuck with me. He said if we don't embrace our true mission, we will by default pursue what he called a shadow mission
—patterns of thought and action based on temptations and our own selfishness that lead us to betray our deepest values. The result: regret and guilt.
He told us what his particular shadow mission consists of: My shadow mission is to watch TV and masturbate while the world goes to hell.
His language was more raw than this, and a round of nervous laughter swept across the circle of men.
I'm going to say it one more time,
the man said, only this time I want you to listen and not laugh
And he said it again: My shadow mission is to watch TV and masturbate while the world goes to hell.
Silence.
Each of us was thinking the same thing: how easily any of our lives can slide into such a self-centered, trivial pursuit. This guy wasn't tempted to be Adolf Hitler or Saddam