Sunday, July 8, 2012

Thoughts From The Past Two Days!

Words.  They can contain so much potential for life, support and encouragement or they can bring damage, embarrassment or disgrace to an others soul. Thank you to those who sent a card or left a message over these past 5 weeks.  Aaron, the guy who leads our staff sent such a helpful note yesterday.  I think of Aaron often because I've watched him come up through our children's ministry, youth ministry and now he plays a key role on our staff.  My opinion, that's exactly how it should be in church life.  People are built up in faith and their gifts and purpose are unlocked as we experience life together.

Great time of worship this morning with the folks at Elevate Church.  The service was built around the theme of boldness.  The take-away point for me was: Boldness is a behavior born out of belief.  They spoke about Peter and his ever growing boldness centered on belief in Jesus.  Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13

Each day I have been on this respite has been an ongoing mix of incredible advancement and brutal set-backs.  That's what happens in the early period of walking away from one thing and moving toward another.  There is a bit of tug-of-war and you're the rope.