I am not really big on changes in life and certain routines I have but I think God has an interesting way of moving me along. Tonight was the beginning of a new life group (home group) and one that I am facilitating. It is a really big change for me because I had been a part of another group before we even started gathering as a church. We had formed an amazing community and have experienced so much together and I was comfortable.
It is funny because so often when I become comfortable in something, God allows things to shift. As a leadership team at LATR, we were conversing about how we could get people who attended the church plugged into a group. We decided that certain changes had to be made it order to facilitate more involvement. This is when God stepped in and started His tugging in me. I am honestly grateful that He moves me this way but a lot of times I struggle with the change I have to make. Anyway, I almost immediately started feeling a burden for a few people I knew that were not connected to a group for whatever reason. As soon as that burden came on, I started wrestling with the idea. I knew God was moving me to step up and start a brand new group but I wasn't sure how it was going to happen. So after some time of wrestling and prayer and thought, I approached Josh with the idea and he immediately gave me the thumbs up. I was hoping he was going to say, maybe wait, maybe train a little more as a leader, or just whatever to halt my progress; but NO, he agreed right away!
Well, after a few weeks of networking and "recruiting" we had our first gathering tonight. I was really nervous because there were so many unknowns but God had His hand all over tonight. It was a great night of interaction and getting to hear each other's life story and spending time in prayer for each other. I thank God for the opportunity to build community with others and grow as iron sharpens iron.
Our new life group!
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