Inspired again
Hookers Inc. dvdrip I haven’t been to a church on my own accord in almost five years. I did attend a church several times in NYC but it more at the expectations of others rather than for my own benefit. I went closed-minded, half-hearted, and bitter. So, needless to say I got nothing out of it.
When Pan and I started dating she was involved in a church in North Carolina that she loved and that she found a family in. I was jealous but refused to let on. I longed for the type of community and fellowship I had once had back in OV. When she and I married she expressed a desire for us to find a church together; a family of God that spoke to us both. I thought it was impossible. The two of us have different styles of worship, different expectations, and different desires.
When we moved to Barnesville we felt like our search was even more hopeless. Neither of us wanted to be a card-carrying member of a Methodist church, a Southern Baptist congregation, or a non-denominational sect. We prayed about it. We waited on Him. And today we felt like our prayers were answered.
This morning we straggled over to the E.P. Roberts center on the “other side of the tracks” to visit with Vertical Community – a new ‘church’ in Barnesville whose pastor is basic, youngish, intelligent, intuitive, and displays a heart for reconciliation and community. It was inspiring to be in that rented room this morning with representatives of all ages, races, financial means, and groups, as represented in B’ville. We left knowing we had found a family we were looking for.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Wow, your blog really touched me because I too haven’t been to church in… ok I don’t want to say how long. I want to find a church to raise Lian and Tripp in and I cannot suffer through a southern Baptist church in Jacksonville (AKA the extremist right wingers), it just ain’t the same as the almost Baptist “lite” that I came from in OV. I have considered going to a Buddhist temple, the older I get the more the Buddhist make sense to me, but there is that void because JC is, as you know, the bomb. Your Barnesville find has made me hopeful. Congratulations on your new journey in spirit, I know it will be a good one
Love to you and Pan