The moment it converges!

Coincidence, no. Divine convergence, yes. Several things have converged in my life, I attended a seminar "Breaking the 500 Barrier", I really got know and understand the words of "Give Me Your Eyes" by Brandon Heath and I read "Who Stole My Church?" by Gordon MacDonald.
First of all, if that title, "Who Stole My Church?" is something you're asking yourself, then you need to read the book. If it intrigues you, then you need to read the book and if you're a leader, then you need to read the book.
What are we doing to re-focus the church to go beyond the four walls? The church is not for those inside it's fold, but the lost still outside. How do we get them inside? We need to have Jesus' eyes and Jesus' arms and Jesus hands to see them, love them and serve them. We knock down the barriers by making our church a place of relevance to the lost. The message doesn't change, but the way we reach out, changes.
Ours is a post-modern world, a scary place where people don't have a basic understanding of Judeo-Christian thought patterns. They are wandering in the dark, and their are many lights that beckon them. The question is what is our local light doing to attract them?

"Let's go for a ride!"

I saw a motorcycle going down the road one day and on the back was a girl, maybe 10 holding on to her dad, her head was turned and she was clinging to the one thing she could. She couldn't see where they were going, she could only see what was going past and hear the motor rev, and feel the bike race along. Sometimes when life doesn't make sense, God's just revving the motorcycle and telling us to hang on to Him. It has been an amazing, scary, faith building last four months. It feels like our family exploded in size. It did almost double with Gwen and Shaniah coming. I changed jobs, and started two small businesses. God has provided at just the right time all the way through, we were getting low on diapers for two and a friend has helped us out 4 times! To our friend: Thanks, we really appreciate it. Our one small business is picking up and generating the income that we need from that. We pray that it continues to grow. As for our other business, it's a crowded market, it's going to take awhile, but we're looking at some creative marketing ideas and doing some pro-bono work to hopefully generate some interest.
As we head into winter, we are excited to see where this wild ride is going.