A Two-Year Update

I checked this page this morning and couldn’t believe that it has been over two years since I posted an entry on a personal note.  I guess my gut instinct is that not that many people are interested in my personal life, so why bore them and waste their time and mine?

I do want to share the news about the huge project that Keith Smith and I are developing.  As you can read in my journal, we have begun a new program that we call LE90X.  It is a spiritual fitness regimen that runs parallel to a physical fitness program.  Many people are aware of P90X as a premier fitness program now wildly popular.  We believe that the physical fitness overtones that exist in society today provide a powerful associative aspect to LE90X.  It is proving to be true.

This weekend, I presented some components of LE90X to the ministers and spouses of Section 6, Texas district, UPCI.  The receptivity and enthusiasm that they had was incredible.  The younger ministers were especially excited about this because they are very knowledgeable of P90X and other physical fitness programs.  They caught the implications of the program immediately and are champing at the bit to get their hands on it.

We are now going through the process of reviewing, tweaking and revising the rough draft into a coherent program that will work for everybody.  Several church groups and individuals are involved in this process.  As you might imagine, it will take several months for this to happen before we are ready for release.  Since we expect this to be a major national—and even international—event, we cannot risk having an inferior product.  There will be copycat programs that will appear very quickly on the market that will have the advantage of our program’s skeleton and may offer improvements that we have not yet developed.  The initial release, therefore, has to be our best shot.

We anticipate a release date of mid to late summer.  I have a personal sense of mission about this program that I have never had of any similar endeavor in my life.  I believe it has the potential of reordering the rank and file of the church today.  That is a bold statement, and I didn’t say it would happen, but it has this kind of potential.  We will all have to wait and see.  Judging from the preliminary responses, however, I think the chances that it will be big are very good.

Stay tuned.

JMJ