All in all I had a pretty decent Christmas. My wife is really sick with the flucoldbronchituspneumonia though, and that put a damper on things somewhat. But it was all still good.
I am preaching again this weekend, and instead of teaching in the traditional sense, I wanted to take some time with our congregation to do a communal venting/breathing/journal/praying thing. I just feel like this past year has beat me up. I am tired, and frustrated, and I just want to be still in the company of others who may feel the same way.
So we are going to talk a little bit about how we are fragile dirt clods whom God has breathed into. We are going to look at the idea in scripture about how "breath" and "spirit" are intertwined...and then we are going to take some time to let them intertwine...
Breathe out our crap...
Breathe in God...
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i would really like to know how this turned out for you. Can you share afollow up?
Well, for me personally it was very fulfilling. One thing that the process of preparing, praying, and then talking with my congregation and the other leaders made clear to me, was that this Church was not the Church for me.
You know over on Bob's blog, I push his buttons a lot because I just think he comes across as kinda like a knowitall sometimes. But truth be told, what he has to say gets through to me. Now I would say that my Church was not and is not the typical american consumerist Church, but it could become that. And I was not "the" leader there, so in terms of political power, I had very little to influence the overal structure and leading of the Church. During the course of my continuting growth as a disciple, it is clear that if I am to lead out in a GC kinda way, I cannot do it within the structure that that congregation had become. So I am leaving...but its a good thing!!
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