Finding Your Just Cause: Why We Can't Wait for Catastrophe to Come Together
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TLDR: Discover how to harness the powerful unity that emerges during disasters and channel it into everyday Kingdom building. Learn to identify your "just cause" that can rally people together for positive change before catastrophe strikes, moving from reactive emergency response to proactive community building around vision and purpose.
What?
Recently I've been thinking about devastation and times when things come together causing destruction and catastrophe. Just this week there was a flood in Texas at a girl's Christian summer camp where 27 kids and counselors were killed, though many were saved. The news did a better job covering it, picking up footage of a bus load of kids singing "Pass It On," a good Christian campfire tune celebrating life.
What strikes me in this disaster situations is seeing the rescue effort coming together, unifying people, everyone reaching out and being supportive. It's so beautiful to see that camaraderie and people performing amazing acts of service and sacrifice. But it's also sad that America, with all our individual success and solo-ness, tends to be so independent and uncoordinated outside of catastrophe. In catastrophe we seem to overlook more differences and become more human.
Some of the best movements and effects come from people who come together when there's not a catastrophe or emergency, but around a vision. Simon Sinek talks about this in "The Infinite Game" - picking a just cause, rallying people around it, and building something amazing together.
Why?
This observation revealed something crucial about human nature and Kingdom leadership: we have an incredible capacity for unity, sacrifice, and coordinated action, but we typically only activate it during emergencies. We come together during strife, earthquakes, wildfires, and disasters, but we don't harness that same energy for proactive Kingdom building.
The tragedy is that we wait for catastrophe to demonstrate what we're capable of when united. We see the beautiful community that emerges during crisis and think "if only we could have this all the time." But we can - we just need to find our just cause and start building before the emergency hits.
This connects to my core beliefs: I believe I'm getting better every day, I believe we are better together, and I believe in a God who knows way better than I know better. These beliefs call us to be intentional about community and purpose rather than reactive to circumstances.
Lesson
The power that emerges during catastrophe doesn't have to wait for disaster. We can be together before the catastrophe, be together to stop the catastrophe, and be together to build something magnificent in the ordinary days. This requires identifying what Simon Sinek calls a "just cause" - something bigger than ourselves that can rally people together for positive action.
A just cause isn't just about responding to problems, though it might address ongoing issues like human trafficking or other unacceptable situations happening in our world. The key is finding something that can start a movement, build a community, and create "better together" momentum without waiting for emergency to force cooperation.
This is particularly important for Kingdom Family Leaders because we're called to be proactive builders of God's kingdom, not just reactive responders to crisis. We have the opportunity to demonstrate the power of Christian community and coordinated action in everyday life, showing the world what's possible when people unite around eternal purposes rather than temporary emergencies.
The question becomes: what just cause can you start a movement around? What just cause can you start a community around? What just cause can you build better together that doesn't require catastrophe to motivate action?
Apply
Write down in the Doobly Doo today: What is your just cause? What just cause can you start a movement around? What just cause can you start a community around? What just cause can you build better together that's not in response to catastrophe?
Maybe it is something addressing ongoing catastrophe that's more widespread - like human trafficking or other unacceptable world situations. Or maybe it's something proactive and vision-focused that builds rather than just responds.
Most importantly, what's today's step? Don't just identify your just cause - write down your next step of action. Where is your movement? Where is your just cause, and what are you going to do about it today?
You be blessed!
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