There Must Be More

Dinner

Today may be a turning point in our quest to plant a church.  A local church contacted us about meeting with its pastor.  Interesting..?  When we enquired about the purpose of the meeting we learned that the pastor simply wanted to meet us since we were new pastors in the area.  I think that's pretty cool.  Any pastor who makes an effort to build relationship with someone new to the community (especially another pastor) strikes my curiosity.  I mean Kelly and I have never met him.  We've never attended his church.  I don't even know his name (nothing a quick web search can't remedy).  Yet this man has stretched out his hand to meet us.  How cool is that.

When I say today may be a turning point in our quest to plant a church, I mean the turning point of finally connecting with someone that's in the mix.  A Christian brother whose been planted here for years and can be a contact, a co-laborer, or even a friend.  We're having dinner tonight with the Pastors of the church.  I'm lookin forward to it.  Why?  Well, the honest answer would be that this is the first time I feel like someone in the community is reaching out to us instead of us reaching out to them.   How does that scripture go?  ...give and it shall be given unto you...

Time For Healing

It's been a while since I've blogged.  I guess I'm trying to figure out where I'm going and what I'm doing.  I seem to get worn out at the very thought of trying to come up with something to write about.  Truth is the new year has had it's share of difficulties especially spiritually.  I'm currently listening to Sanctus Real's "Whatever You're Doing"-

It's time for healing, time to move on...it's time to fix what's been broken too long.  Time to make right what has been wrong...It's time to find my way to where I belong.........Whatever You're doing inside of me, it feels like chaos but somehow there's peace.  And though it's hard to surrender to what I can't see, I'm giving in to something heavenly, something heavenly.

"Giving in" only happens after you've become exhausted of effort to stand unwavered.  That sounds like me.  I'm exhausted of trying to stand alone...exhausted of the loss of intimacy with God that can only be discovered in a one-on-one conversation with Him.  So I'm giving in to the "alone time" with God and moving on as He fixes what's been broken.

Jesse