Call a Meatloaf a Meatloaf

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It mys­ti­fies me how peo­ple take the same tra­di­tions and meth­ods of mod­ern Chris­tian­ity, mix and match them in dif­fer­ent ways, and expect to get dif­fer­ent results.

I’ve met peo­ple who are tired of the tra­di­tions of ‘insti­tu­tion­al­ized’ Chris­tian­ity. They’re tired of doing the Bible stud­ies, Sun­day ser­vices, youth groups, Sun­day school, etc., but when and if they leave that sys­tem, more often than not they end up doing the same types of tra­di­tions out­side the sys­tem. It’s easy to become yet another denomination.

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It’s not supposed to be strange

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I’ve found that the ques­tion I’m always asked when peo­ple find out I’ve moved out to Sacra­mento from Ten­nessee is, “Did you move due to your job?”

“No,” I tell them, fol­lowed by some vari­ant of, “I came out here because I felt like it’s what God wanted me to do.”

I’ll usu­ally then get a strange look from them.

So now I’m going to ask the ques­tion I keep won­der­ing: why is that strange?

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This isn’t normal?

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So, we’ve done this crazy thing and moved 2200 miles away from our friends and fam­ily, sim­ply because we felt God call­ing us to, and he must have some­thing to do out here, right? It con­tin­ues to be an incred­i­ble les­son in liv­ing by faith, wait­ing on the Lord, and look­ing for him every­where. I get the ques­tion a lot, “So what brought you to Sacra­mento?” It’s pretty funny the look on peo­ples’ faces when we try and explain–most seem to think it’s pretty strange, stu­pid, or weird.

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Top Ten Things I’ve learned from Shammah

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I’ve toyed with the idea of doing a series here list­ing things I’ve learned from var­i­ous friends, fam­ily, strangers and other clas­si­fi­ca­tions of peo­ple. Might as well get it started, so to kick it off, let’s begin with my good friend, Shammah. So, here are ten things I’ve learned from him, in no par­tic­u­lar order:

  • Praise has noth­ing to do with sound­ing good, but every­thing to do with the heart.
  • You can learn to over­come shy­ness and inse­cu­rity by sheer force of will.
  • Give, give, and give until it hurts. Then give some more.
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All things new

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Ok, ok, I know. It’s been waaay too long with­out any posts on this blog. Well, there’s been a lot of big changes in life recently, so I beg your for­give­ness, and will try and rem­edy the sit­u­a­tion with a quick sum­mary, and then get back to work try­ing to write more regularly.

So here’s the news:

Our fam­ily moved to Sacra­mento, Cal­i­for­nia in late October.

Why did we move? In a nut­shell, to be with some friends out here who have asked us to come and help them try to have deeper fel­low­ship, and to see what God wants to do out here.

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