Finish Line or Starting Line

In a conversation I was having with a friend, she was being challenged how our church is viewing the new building we moved into a month ago. Our conversation can be boiled down to this simple thought. Is this building the finish line or the starting line. For me and many that have been working long hours to remodel the place, I can see very easily that the answer could be finsh line. After all, wasn't that the goal, to remodel and move in to a new facility? I can see many people can think this way. But this is a very dangerous thinking . . .I can see how it would limit our opportunities for future growth, both as a church and individuals.

I think this is what my friend was getting at. God has so much more for our church and for each individual to grow beyond where we are today. We must see our church building as the starting line of the next chapter of our lives (both as a church and individuals).

Bang, off we go!!

Have a Great day

David

Distracted by the little things

So I had a friend asked me what I thought of our new home (our church moved to another location that required a remodel)? My response was that I was distracted by the little things. Then they asked, what percentage of the building is completed? WOW, what a great question. How often do we let our life move and shift because of such a small percentage.

Widen that a bit, and we can ask the question . . .how many small things move huge parts of our life? Furthermore, many of these things will be unseen or forgotten moments after they intersected our lives . . .let's focus on the big things, shall we.

Have a Great day

David

Let the opinons fly

A few folks from our church gather on Sunday mornnings to pray. We beleive that our God is not distent and relates to all humans individually and as a whole. As we shared together how what we felt God was saying to us, one of our folks said that she shared that with a new place like ours, opinons and personal thoughts of how things should be ran and look seems to come to the forfront. Even though it's natural for people to think that way, but the most important opinon is God's opinon.

Before we can here His opinon, we need to quite ours . . . through prayer, thinking of others first, placing our listening skills to the task, we will soon find out what he wants.

I concure with my friends desire to put God's "opinons" first

Have a Great day

David

Sweaty Eyes and Smiling faces

22 months ago, our church was feeling a strong signal for God that we needed to move, yesterday was a huge milepost in seeing the future come to the present. What are you talking about David? Well, we had our first service in our new place. WOW what a journey, filled with joys and jerks (no we are not talking about our city officers but the quick twist and turns of a construction project).

Let me tell you, my eyes sweated all morning long. No guy would ever admit to crying would they? But sweaty eyes . . . that is a different story, and that's were I found myself. To the point I was telling myself, "David, pull your self together . . . your going to be talking in a few moments . . .it's not going to be very good if all you do is stand up their and cry."

But let me tell you, I wasn't the only one that had sweaty eyes . . .there was many tears. I think it helped me understood (just a little) of what the nation of Israel experienced as they entered into a promise that was given to their people many years ago. It also helped me understand the great responsibility that Joshua had as their leader. It's a holy pressure that I feel and also know that God will help me as he helped Joshua as well.

May the God of Jacob and Joshua be with us all!

Have a Great day

David