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People often ask me, "how's your church going?" Interesting question to try to answer given the nature of our "church." See, I have to put it in quotation marks it's so funky. Anyway, I think the answer these days is, "it's going fairly well." I really think it is. I don't mean by that that we are "growing" and that we now have 50 people. We may never have 50 people in this community. I mean I think we are learning what it means to be a community of people on this journey together for the long haul. I mean we are getting on each others' nerves - that's a community thang. I mean we are dealing with it and moving on and recognizing how God is forming us through one another. It's really good stuff. It's too bad this kind of "growth" and "success" doesn't show up on many people's radar screen. So, we keep on walking down the path together. I'm sure we'll pick up a few stragglers along the way, but we keep walking, helping each other to stay focused.
| posted by + Alan | 8:29 AM | |