So the last fews weeks have been a season of dealing with problems. We have all heard the phrase,"When it rains it pours" My wife's car blew up and has now been in the shop some 2 weeks...our sewer line backed up for the 3rd time since we bought this house a year ago...we replaced the sewer line...had gravel brought in for the drive way...the guy put all of it in like 3 huge piles...thank you college guys who came and helped me spread that junk out...my car battery kind-of quit working on my car...replaced some grass with 100 pieces of sod...took out dead flowers...replaced dead with new/live flowers. Normally I would get completely ticked off...but it caused me to do some stuff around the house that honestly needed to be done. So in some ways I guess you could call it a "good problem."
Well as a church we are dealing with problems all the time, because honestly that is just par for the course when it comes to church planting. If anyone out there believes the church should be perfect...you are one of a couple of things...ummmmm too ideal or well just........stupid....seriously there's problems on occasion. Problems within the family/church are not always good but sometimes they are. Let's start thinking of church as family. Families grow...the church will grow. When a family grows it is an exciting thing...there is new life...new ideas...and well new problems. The house feels smaller, there's a need for more food, there's more opinions, there's more needs and so on.
Right now as a family/church we are completely maxed out on space. We are at a place where something must be done pretty soon to be able to fit everyone in the "house". We are currently praying and seeking hard after what God would have us do. Do we go to 2 Gatherings, do we find a new larger location, do we start another Gathering in another part of town on top of the one we already do? These are all good questions that come along with what we think is a GOOD PROBLEM. To be honest with new life coming in to the family it is exciting because now there are more hands to serve, more voices to speak the truth, more feet to take the truth of Jesus into our community, more mouths to pray.......God is up to something here and he is building his family to reach this community. The cool thing about his family is we are ALL adopted in and the adoption process will never stop. To those of you that are a part of the family at Midtown...pray hard about this "Good Problem". As a heads up...just so you know...whatever we do will take sacrifice on all of our parts. A key to a healthy family is sacrifice. We will have to sacrifice our time, our gifteness, our thoughts, and honestly our money. We are in an exciting time and I love being a part of this family. I look forward to growing together as a family in so many ways.
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