I'm not a star

Yesterday at church, the message was about Philippians 2:14-18:


¹⁴ Do everything without grumbling or arguing, ¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky ¹⁶ as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain. ¹⁷But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. ¹⁸ So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.


Dale focused a lot on the end of verse 15, about shining like stars. He said those at the Academy Awards (which were last night for those of you who, like me, didn't watch them) weren't actually stars and that the true stars were all around us. He listed off many of the groups of stars in our church. Click here if you want to view (or just listen) to yesterday's message. I'm in 4 of the groups he mentioned--people who moved from Ames to plant the church, people who show up at 5:30 to setup, people who run tech during church, and people who tear down after church.

But like the title of this post says, I'm not a star. I'm just a normal guy. It wasn't really that hard to move--I easily found a place to live, easily got into school, had a decent group of friends that were also moving, etc. The hardest part of that was leaving those that stayed in Ames. Setup, tech, and tear-down are all things that I enjoy. So really, I'm just doing what I like to do. How is that different from anyone else?