This picture above was from two years ago. I think we were somewhere in Louisiana at this time. Susan and I were driving the biggest Penske truck they provide for moving and we were pulling my car behind it! It took us about four days to drive across the country but somehow we made it. We made some incredible memories but I don't think I ever want to drive one of those across the country again. :-)
Several times throughout that trip we looked at each other and laughed. We wondered what in the world are we doing and we sometimes still think that. It kind of reminds me of the time when God told Abraham's wife, Sarah, in her old age she was going to become pregnant. She laughed BUT God did exactly what He said He was going to do.
As I look back I realize we really are not the same people. Yes, we still have the same personalities and all that, but God has done such a work in our hearts over the past two years. It really is amazing. I can see the difference God has made in those who moved with us and joined this journey as well. We are not the same people. God is doing amazing things in our hearts. He has stretched our faith in ways we didn't even know was possible two years ago.
I have realized that for God to do a great work through you He must first do a great work IN you. I feel that the past two years have been as much, if not more, about what God is doing in me and the others who have joined this journey.
Last night as someone sat in our living room wrestling over their decision of crossing the line of faith and becoming a follower of Christ, I was reminded THIS is why we are here. We moved across the country to lead people far from God to become passionate followers of Christ!
Church planting is hard work but I wouldn't trade what we are doing for anything else in the world. The thirty plus people who have given their lives to Christ since we have moved here makes it all worth it!
I don't know what the next two years will look like but I do know the best is yet to come...
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