Throughout the life of the church plant here in ZG we've had to make hard choices. Our values have dictated those choices. Some of those choices come with ease and make everyone happy. Others, unfortunately, do not. Nonetheless, in order to live our what we've found to be true, we make these choices...no matter the cost. (This, of course, is only true most of the time. Sometimes we wimp out. Just feeling the need to confess there.:) )
This little church plant of 12-15 people has been to together now for about a year and a half. It's as old as my daughter Lizzie almost exactly. As we grow, we have seen that it's time to multiply our small group as the walls of the Dakic's apartment (the folks at whose apt we meet) are busting out with children and adults alike. This group has become family. Our kids play together as though they were cousins...a bit of arguing, but a ton of loving. Some of our people...most of our people I should say...have never experience community like this before. Why? Because it's community induced by the Holy Spirit. It's been attained spiritually in prayer and by the Spirit of Christ who lives in us...not through hard work. (I'm not claiming it's all perfect by any means. Just FYI.) Now, we as leaders keep putting in front of our people the need to multiply this house church and make two. Everyone agrees, but hates it. It's one of those choices. It's one of those defining moments. Today Roger (our team leader) preached on these things. Many people expressed their concerns and suggested other options. Roger, however, stuck to his guns. These are defining moments in the life of the church.
I'm just inspired right now by these defining moments in our lives where we have the choice to live out of our values or not. Lately I feel like Father's been saying to me, "What would you do if you had no fear?" What would I do different? How would I daily act? This is a phenomenal question I want to daily ask myself. This is a question we as a church want to ask ourselves. We want to live out of what we believe...not out of fear...fear of others, fear of the unknown, fear of failure. God, help us. His perfect love has made this possible.
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Dude you are so cool now that you are in the blogosphere. Really trendy, but I feel kinda bad when you are copying me all the time. I only wish that you were not a blogger so that my comments would not look so shallow. I guess I am gonna have to go make up some values to live by or something. Hey, why did you not link your blog to mine. Too good for us eh??
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