{"id":1196,"date":"2006-06-16T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2006-06-16T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T19:52:00","slug":"county-judge-chad-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/county-judge-chad-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"County Judge Chad Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interviewed Ellis County Judge Chad Adams this week. Here’s a preview of the full interview to run Sunday in the Waxahachie Daily Light<\/A>.<\/p>\n

(regarding the Ellis County Facilities Committee)WDL: Do you feel that they had enough tools and authority to do the job they were asked to do? Some people have said that they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t able to do their job at times.<\/strong>CA: There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a concept \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and this is from the mission field \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but a man told me and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve forgotten his name now but he worked in the administration.
\nI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if you know this, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why I came back \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to get my degree in administration — to actually go back and serve as an administrator in the field. What you have is a lot of missionaries who want to be in the bush country but because of the need for administration they end up in administration and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do a good job. So I felt like my gifts were good in administration so pursued an administration degree to go back and be a missionary.
\nBut this Australian administrator looks at me and says in an Australian accent, with his blue eyes and black hair \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and he was hot about something, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let me tell you something. You can never have the responsibility without the authority. And you can never have the authority without the responsibility. They always have to be the same. You remember that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And I did. And that concept has been wonderful.
\nUltimately the court was and is responsible for the decisions that we make for this county. So I think that though some may argue the authority of the group was limited, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because the responsibility of the group was limited.<\/p>\n

WDL: What then fell off track? What led you into county judge if your plan was to go back to the mission field?<\/strong>
\nCA: I guess I helped Bob Carrol in his race when he first ran for county court at law. And its funny how many people consider Bob Carrol a good friend and I guess I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m one of those. Because he is such a good friend to people. But I think that was my introduction into politics, while I was finishing up my degree in administration. And once that was completed it was just natural to slide into running for office.
\nWe ran for justice of the peace. And an interesting dynamic is that running for public office is sort of like being a missionary. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to get your message out. You have to send your letters out for your fundraising efforts. You raise the funds and then you go and serve. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s similar in that scope.
\nAnd I think all along my wife and I have been committed to investing our lives into other people and ultimately that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where we see our eternal reward coming from. And this is just a natural extension of that concept.<\/p>\n

WDL: Do you have plans to go back?<\/strong>
\nCA: To the mission field? You know I want to take my family, when the girls are old enough on a summer mission trip. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so important for my girls to see that they are not the only person in this universe. We develop a very selfish attitude if we think that way. and I think the girls, I want them to have a global perspective. And I think when they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re up to it we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make a very strong effort to do that.
\nMy wife has done many short term mission trips in Mexico. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done some together as a husband and wife. It was an interesting dynamic. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a take charge kind of guy and I was invading her territory in a way. But she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an awesome girl and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very thankful for her.
\nI know this is a side note, but my personality has to have someone like my wife and she simplifies things so well. She is a very wise woman. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll come home with an issue and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give her the entire details, but I give her a nutshell and she gives me a nutshell answer back — and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how she does it, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of like that intuition, wise aspect of summing the issue up and summing up what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really going on. <\/p>\n

WDL: What things have you taken from the mission field and put it into your public service?<\/strong>
\nCA: I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to take God and throw Him up for purpose of getting elected. But honestly when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re walking with the Lord and a decision comes — and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m human and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do this every time — but when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re walking with the Lord, there is a voice of wisdom that is present. And it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter which decision you face but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s usually a right decision if you head that voice of wisdom. But if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not walking with the Lord and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not in fellowship with Him then you lack wisdom.
\nAnd if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever studied wisdom in scripture it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an awesome live, living thing. In fact it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an extension of God Himself.
\nI think decisions on the court, and in the court, and in daily routine are similar to the mission field because when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the mission field there is always a crisis. When you go over there you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how things are going to work out. You have to be flexible. And you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re always praying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lord I we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got this circumstance, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trusting you right now to take care of this situation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nToday I was in a meeting and I went to the restroom to freshen up, and its become a standard operating procedure for me, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a conscious effort to say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God You are in control, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how this meeting is going to go but I give it to you,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and it was a great meeting — I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget to do that. But I think constant fellowship with the Lord is something I really learned on the mission field because maybe you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re up against a nation or a country or region of people that you have no way of politically manipulating, motivating or working through, you just have to say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God I trust you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I guess that was a big concept burned into my mind in distributing the grain to the people on the mission field — just trusting the Lord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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