Up Coming Events

It has been a long time since I wrote any new information on here.  I am sorry to all who might be looking for a glimmer of what is to come.  The Christmas and New Year just seemed to over take life and I am just now starting to come out of the fog of those days.  But, I would like to give some ideas some flesh and hopefully get some response through here and the linked pages.

I know over the years that there is never really a new idea.  It may be new to us and to what we are accustom to thinking and doing life.  In reality, some one some where is acting out on what we are thinking or planning right now.  For me at least that is  a great relief.  Someone has some advice for what is best practice and actions.  They might even be able to tell me some of the dangers ahead.  They may try to encourage me not to act.  They might even consider it foolish to act in certain ways, but then again nothing tried, nothing gained. 

In the boldness of nothing tried nothing gain, I want to send out a message to fellow believers that we need to stand up.  I hope some of you already have the song in your head (if you don't, ask a grey haired person, they will know the song).  But I am reading Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: living as an ordinary radical.  Shane points to the fact that we can consume large amounts of Christian information, but we don't have to really do anything with it.  We can just pump it back out to the right people.  We do not have to change our living much to be a Christian.  Is this all that there is to being a Christian?  This is the question posed by Shane and many other Christians.

I do not think that is everything it means to be a Christian.  It is the same response given by Shane in the opening pages of the book.  Christ did not call us to a knowledge.  We are called to be followers.  Every disciple called in the Gospels, Jesus tells them to follow me.  Jesus gives the same instructions to the rich young man when asking about eternal life.  Jesus tells him to sell everything and follow me. There is the problem.  What does it mean to follow Jesus?  Do we sell everything and live in a commune?  First believers did. For some it may mean selling all and following Jesus.  Others have a very different calling in their life to follow Jesus. 

First and for most, we need to move away from reading all the material we can get our hands on and read the people for insight.  Then we pray and pray and pray.  We ask questions and seek out God's movement in our lives.  We also challenge ourselves to move out of our comfort zones to see God a work in the lives of others. 

In the end, God will show us how to follow.  We must be willing to learn from Him, be a disciple (student).  If this is a journey you wish to move forward but don't know where to start, I would love to help you.  There are many other people who would love to do the same.  Seek them out.  I will be more than happy to help and give some options, but we must be willing first.

Let us follow Christ.