as for my blogging hiatus...

I really can say that I haven't felt much like blogging lately.  When I first began blogging I started because I wanted to share my thoughts and feelings with the people that I love (family, Ridge Pointe Church, etc...) but can say with complete honesty that lately it had become a popularity contest for me...how many views in a day?  where are the people from that read this?  

I have come to the point where I have realized and am now trying to act on being the man that God has REALLY called me to be.  Forget the garbage, forget the baggage; whatever it is that's holding me back.  I have to get back to loving our people with complete abandon, putting their needs before my own, and sharing Christ with others.  Every so often God gives all of us a reality check.  We get ahead of where He wants us.  Some of us move back in line, others think that their ideas are above Gods.  It's time for me to move back, get in line, and follow Christ.

When Jesus was going to resurrect Lazarus, Thomas said, "let us go so that we may die with Him" (Anthony Johnson version 2008).  Sometimes it becomes necessary to follow Christ against all conventional wisdom, against ideas of "successful" churches/pastors, and against our own wills and desires.  May God help all of us to have an agenda created and shaped by Christ.