Lots happening. Don’t know where to begin. God is the best place to start. He is fantastic. He create us, all of us and everything that exists. See Psalm 24.
GOD:
Not only did He create us, He loves us dearly. Sometimes we don’t think He loves us and sometimes we think He has abandoned us. But, its not so. If God seems far away and uncaring to me, it is my problem. I am the one who has turned away. He can cause me to feel good and He can cause me to feel lousy. The feelings are a result of His actions, my action and my expectations. If I am not trusting in Him, then my actions and my expectations are likely to be outside of His will. When He created us, it was for His purposes and He has a great plan for our lives now and in eternity. God refuses to make us follow in His will using His power. He made us with “Free Will” and He wants us to trust, obey and follow using the “Free Will” He gifted to us. I’m learning about that. And, I am obviously, a slow learner. Trusting is hard for me. My own self will distracts and derails my best efforts. And, when it is governed by my efforts, then I have failed to trust. Sounds like circular logic. But, I don’t think it is.
DCC:
This crazy discussion leads me to the situation at my church. Right now I am very disheartened. My heart is crying out and I don’t like the feelings. Remember what I said about feelings. Feeling bad is a result of the interactions of God will, my actions and my expectations. I know God loves me and wants the best for me. So, the problem lies with my actions and/or my expectations.
There are fellow christians in the brotherhood of DCC who are unhappy with the sermons and leadership of Brian Myers. I have heard from many of them and I have heard second hand about many of them. The feelings are extensive enough to be concerning. I am concerned.
I like Brian’s sermons and I like Brian. I don’t have and opinion about His leadership. It is okay with me. Brian’s sermons and my relationship with him have prompted me to dig deeper into my “salvation story”. It is, I believe and ongoing story. The past three years I believe I have grown in my walk and grown closer to God. I have like the DCC experience in the past the past three years.
Now I see that there is growing distaste and growing divisiveness. The situation is making me cry. What can be done to get back to the old acceptable situation? What is going on here? Is God sending us a message? Was there something wrong with the old. I am reminded of John’s vision in Revelation about the “lukewarm” church at Laodicea. Were we “lukewarm”? Did we need to change? Do we need to change? Do I need to change? This is concerning me and I don’t know what to do. I hurt. I am crying for the fellowship of DCC. We may not be just “lukewarm” now?
THE YOUTH OF SUMMIT COUNTY:
Scott Price and I are working along with many others to improve the Christian outreach in Summit county. We believe that a local version of Young Life would be a good tool to accomplish part of this objective. The effort seems to be moving along nicely with little resistance and a great deal of positive support.
We have a club number and we many verbal commitments. There are potential adult leaders who seem committed to work. There are youth who seem interested in going to camp. Scott has done a great job of communicating with interested people. It seems now to be and issue priority. We are not really established. But, there are some who want us to be.
We can send youth to camp using the facility and expertise of the Evergreen club. We have secured ten seats on their bus. We have one leader committed to go with the youth. We need one more. Most of these youth are not in a close relationship with an adult leader. This seems to make it difficult to secure a commitment from the kids that they are actually going to camp. Also, the $700 fee is a problem for many of them at this rather late date. The camp week is June 11-19. Therefore, many may need help with the fee. We might need $5000 or $6000. Any one want to help?
The next meeting of our informal group is May 17th at the Prices beginning at 6p.m.
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