This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- 1 John 3:18
It’s been an interesting last few weeks. I have recently put in my two week notice at the church I’ve been serving at for the last few years (almost five now). I have began working with Olan Mills again as a Studio Photographer and we are moving yet again come this Friday and the rest of October.
God continues to work in amazing ways. Probably the biggest thing is leaving the church I have been a part of for the last few years. I don’t know where I will be called to next, but I am open for wherever God leads.
I told my Bible Study group that I’ve always felt God calling me to Youth Mininstry, Writing, Small Groups and Camp & Retreat Ministries. If like Jonah I am heading in a way that is contrary to where God wants me to go, it is the responsibility of not just myself to realize it, but also theirs to spur me onto where God is calling (even if it means throwing me off the boat).
It may be that God is leading me and calling me in a new direction too. We know that there is a season and a time for everything under Heaven. It is my one desire that I follow that most closely.
But over the last few weeks I have been challenged most in the respect of how do I most show love to others in difficult choices and times. As it relates to Discovery Church particularly, it is that I love the people who are a part of the church as well as the leadership who is charged with the responsibility of leading the church. I have at times fought the direction of the church as a member of the Leadership Team. But it is also not my place to foist the direction that God has placed on my life and heart upon a body of believers who are doing their best to follow God in where He has called them.
In 2 Cor 7:15b we have the statement “God has called us to live in peace.” It is my firm belief that I must first live in peace with the calling God has placed on my life and to live in peace with other believers. Paul himself never stayed at one particular church very long, but moved on so that God could continue to use him in new and engaging ways. I, likewise wish to continue to be used in new and engaging ways furthering the good news of the message of Christ and not grow stagnant in my faith limiting how and where God can move.
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I wondered if you might be resigning when you said you are looking for full-time employment. It’s good you keep yourself open to the counsel of others when making decisions like that. Who knows what God has in store for you both!
Thanks for the encouragement Kimberly. It was a hard choice to make. If I were to base it completely off our budget and trying to pay off debt, then we could have stayed, but it’s also when and where God moves too. I’d rather be poor than disobedient!
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