Small Group

We had our first night at our new small group, it was amazing. We had some great fellowship, and opened up with some prayer, the host (Luke) got us started on our topic, the book of Luke. We had 4 different types of bibles, and began to read through the first chapter.

It was great, a ton of learning took place, we made it through the first 38 verses in 2 hours. God made His presence felt, we were all getting very in depth.

We had a few somewhat new believers and some life long believers, a great mix. The feeling after was ecstatic, we closed by listening to a worship tune, and some more prayer.

I am very excited to go back for the next 6 weeks, and my wife an I have made a commitment to not miss a single week.

Partnership Rocks

Its amazing how much my wife influences me and my decisions (Even with only being married 11 days). Its truly a blessing. I have been feeling uncommitted to the cause of Church Cleanliness lately, its been tough, its a job that never ends, its always needs more, there is always a "new project" or "big emergency" every day of the week.

I have been feeling like what I do is not really a ministry position, that I don't really affect life change. "WRONG!"

A great phrase she used was "every person who affects the look and feel of the church is involved in ministry," and what a true statement that is.

I am a minister.

An so is every other person who works with me, for me, or above me. We are all making a difference in the view someone has of our church home. By picking up the trash or repainting the walls, we are allowing "attenders" and "first time guest" to not be distracted, and to be able to focus on what God is planning to in there hearts for that day.

I am very fortunate and blessed to be in this position, or in any ministry position, and to have a wife who is open to what God has to say.

Same Team!

A few days back I was watching a live video feed from the Whiteboard Conference. One of the speakers showed a baptism video after he spoke. It was a great video, very heart warming, and well put together. While watching the video I had a great realization.

We Are All On The Same Team!

Often times, we can get the feeling of wanting to "out do" other churches, to make our services more appealing, get more volunteers, have a bigger attendance, produce our own curriculum. All of these things are great to move towards, but these thoughts are often self-centered.

I loved watching the video because I just showed that whether a church of 100 or 10,000, we all have the same goal and often produce the same results. Whether baptizing 1 or 100 is still a win for God!