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A few photos over there to let you in on what goes on around here. I haven't posted on here in a while. Our last meeting was a good one. Lester visited with us. We prayed our evening prayer, had a good discussion on the James passage from the Reading on "be a doer of the word and not a hearer only..." - good insights. We had our first "tele-church" meeting as well. Robert and Molly, who've moved to Tulsa, called us and took part in our discussion time via the speakerphone. That was very cool - good to hear from those guys. We miss them. They're still on the blog - they should be on here telling you what's going on with them themselves - we'll work on 'em.
Then at the end, we celebrated the Eucharist. This is two weeks in a row where we've had a literal "spilled blood of Christ" thing happen. One of the kids bumped into the chalice and spilled some of the wine - the blood. It was kind of cool really. The last time it happened before last week, I had just said the words "spilled blood" and it went down - that was good.
What about the discussion: it was a good one - talking alot about the "doing it anyway" thing that Debi mentioned down there. We talked also about the process - hearing > orienting yourself to God > transformation > doing that comes as a matter of that transformation. Good stuff. We're growing as a community I think.
| posted by + Alan | 9:40 AM | |