First Blog

Hey all,
This is officially the first Connection blog. I'll be writing from time to time, sometimes once a week, sometimes several times a week. It will give you a chance to see how I experience God during the week and hopefully, will give you some things to think/talk about.

As you know, we're working through the Book of Acts right now, and as I'm wrestling with the text I'm wondering, there are all kinds of supernatural things happening. People being healed, the blind can see, people communicating to others in their own language without ever having learned it. At one point, a guy literally disappears from where he is and shows up somewhere else. Crazy! But I wonder, was all that stuff something that needed to happen then and not so much now? I'm not asking does God still interact and do things in his people and Creation, but why don't those things happen now? Should they? Are we missing out on things we should be seeing and experiencing? I don't know. The more I study Acts the more I'm confused by it. Maybe that's true about a relationship with God. Maybe the more we get to know him, the more we learn that there is so much we still have to learn. So as you grow closer to God you realize the capacity for relationship with Him is so much bigger than it was before. I love that about Him.

I'm sure there were some interesting conversations about the talk on Sunday from Luke. I think that's good. Here's what I want to happen. When someone from outside of the culture of Connection comes in to talk, I want you to wrestle with what they're saying, to think about it, to play with it in your head. And at the end of that you can land where ever you want, but I hope you land where you do because that's where you believe God is, and not just where you're comfortable. Feel free to post questions or comments about the talk on the wall on our Facebook page.

On another note I received something in the mail last week that I can't wait to tell you about on Sunday!