Stepping Into What We Do Know
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I spend a lot of time thinking - especially as it relates to the Church. We’ve been in Georgia right at 9 months this week. Things are beginning to feel more like home. Work is good, the kids are making new friends - both in the neighborhood and at school, and we are making new friends as well. The missing piece, though, is church.
We have struggled at trying to find a place where we fit and feel like we can get connected with. I could write a pretty good guide to “finding a church in Suwanee” at this point. The barriers haven’t been all brought on by those churches we’ve attended. Part has been from a deep desire to be and do Church in ways that we honestly just don’t see around us.
Friday night of Catalyst was a ‘thin place’ for me. We got back from the last day of the conference and gathered around the dining room table (all 12 of us) and began to talk about deep things while we ate. Then something amazing happened. I’m still not sure exactly how it happened, other than to say that it was a total God-thing.
I was sitting in the living room playing the guitar and singing a few songs to Emerie at her request before she headed off to bed. Everyone was kind of mingling with one another around the house. Before I knew it everyone had migrated over to the living room and were joining in worship. We then spent some time praying together - praying over friends, family, acquaintances and complete strangers (though after two days there really weren’t strangers any longer). It was an amazing, sweet, and special time where we had church together. All of us connected through a deep bond and connection in the God we love and the Christ we serve.
It was just what I needed. It also was fuel to a fire that God had been stirring in my heart these last nine months.
I’m tired of waiting until I have everything all figured out before I step into that which the Holy Spirit is leading me in. If we try to balance it all there are simply too many things that we don’t know versus that which we do know. I’m waiting no longer, though. I am stepping into what I do know and leaving the rest up to Him. I crave this type of community. May God bless our living room as we begin to connect with those He has orchestrated crossed paths with. Let the adventure begin!
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Andrea shared their voice on 10.15.2008:
It was a thin place - a thin place I was nearly desperate for. Could it always happen so organically and so perfectly? Oh, if that could only be. I feel blessed that this one was so everything of all that. I guess if Abraham pitched his tents by faith, I can, too ( and with my heirs!) . Do you think this (this thing that seems to have been born in our living room) will be ‘the land of our inheritance’? Do you think….hmmmm - Maybe, baby :-)
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"Thin Places" are rich in Celtic tradition. They are the places in our lives where the divine and the natural worlds come so close together that we can catch a glimpse of God. For the Celtics these places were very real - places within creation where we could physically go. The Thin Places in our own lives are those moments where the space between us & the Kingdom is thin, when we are introduced to a greater glimpse of Who He is through our experiences and through the stories of others.
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Kenneth shared their voice on 10.14.2008:
Love the line you wrote “I’m tired of waiting until I have everything figured out before I step into that which the Holy Spirit is leading me in.” That so describes where I am at right now. I have several things that I feel prompted to do right now and have decided to just leap in. I know there will be suprises along the way (and isn’t that part of the fun?), but I believe that God will take care of those things and I am to be faithful to what he has planted in my heart. Glad I had the opportunity to share in that ‘thin place’ moment!