Consumed

Have you ever been on path to something and it becomes all you can think about? Maybe its been an event like a baby, a wedding or your high school reunion; no matter how hard you try, you try and contain and compartmentalize the thoughts, but it fills very thought at every moment in a day.

Personally, I'm leading a group of people in the birthing or pioneering of a new church. I should probably state that this isn't just a bunch of Christians starting a new club. We're men and women who have been changed by Christ and gripped by the Gospel, and our purpose is two-fold, grow more and more in the image of Christ, and see our worlds (the places where we work, sleep, have fun, and dwell) impacted by and through Jesus as well. We're not hyper-Christian who will leave a Bible tract on a table instead of a tip for the waitress, rather just people who have started down a path of change, and are alive in Christ. Christianity is a life-long journey and we hope to walk together and bring others along.

At any rate, I can't stop thinking about who we will be, how we will operate and the impact we hope to have. Each morning I wake up thinking about the potential that lies within us and each evening I have been falling asleep praying that we would be a Church that exists in the presence of the Trinity. If I didn't know better I would call this obsession, but what I think it truly is is simply a rearranging of priorities. Redefining cool all over again. Its a transformation process, a metamorphosis. Hopefully its less of me and more of God.

For the ears: Olsen Olsen - Sigur Ros (the perfect snowy music)
For the mind: Systematic Theology - Wayne Grudem
For the heart: Romans 9