Life!

Praise God! He has been at work in trmendous ways over the last couple years. Since my last post I have started a relationship, graduated college and seminary, got married, moved, and now am expecting our first child in a few short months. Yeah you can say that I've grown up a lot over the last couple years but enough about me.

Lately God has been teaching me about the community/ fellowship/ life of a church. The part of the church that is a living and moving organism that cares for, builds up, loves on, and supports itself. Obviously God is the one that ultimately unites us and holds us together. In similar fashion to your own body God ultimately holds the billions of cells together yet he has given this flesh to us to be stewards of maintaining and taking care of that which he has givien. As the church we must give attention to our body. I'm excited to see evidences of growth in this area in the church in America. Over the last hundred or so years the church has been losing sight of this aspect of church being eclipsed by the desire for accurate theology. Correct doctrine must be in a church but correct doctrine should then lead us to correct action if it does not then it must not be correct doctrine. I love theology and am an introvert, left to myself I would love to sit in a room with books and resources learning and growing in my theology, but that is not what God had in mind for the church. As a partaker in the universal and a local fellowship of believers I must be both a giver and a reciever. Using my gifts and abilities and letting others use their gifts and abilities for the God's glory, our joy, and others good. People desire life. God is life. God is in us. People should see life in us.