Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Beltless Non-Denomination
Most of you know of our church's journey towards being truly non-denominational. This journey was played out in our trip up and back from Cincinnati.
We stopped on the way at a former member's home just outside Atlanta. Shane and Teresa not only shared their home with us they also shared their church. We met a group of their members along with one of their ministers at a community pool in one of the member's subdivision. They provided drinks, food, and their minister led the kids (their youth group and ours) in some games and a devotional. These folks belonged to a local Community Church.
On the way back we were taken care of by my good friend's, Bob and Shelby's church, Crossroads Baptist. These folk unexpectedly bought all of our meals at a local Fuddruckers Restaurant. When we tried to talk Bob and his church out of doing such a deed, he insisted that they wanted to be part of our mission work in Cincinnati.
I had approached Bob a couple of months earlier about staying in their church building on the return trip to Cocoa. Bob said when he approached his fellow deacons about our request and told them of the mission work we were doing, he said to a man they all insisted that they would buy our dinner as the least they could do in coming along side a fellow church doing mission work in the name of the Lord.
How about that - a Community Church and a Baptist Church helping out a bunch of folks from a Church of Christ. In some ways its a shame that I would write that previous sentence as if such a practice is an exception rather than the norm. 3 different group of folks who love the Lord - helping each other - now that should be a common practice and perhaps one day it will.
I will get to the "Beltless" part of this post in my next posting. Its a story that demands its own space.
We stopped on the way at a former member's home just outside Atlanta. Shane and Teresa not only shared their home with us they also shared their church. We met a group of their members along with one of their ministers at a community pool in one of the member's subdivision. They provided drinks, food, and their minister led the kids (their youth group and ours) in some games and a devotional. These folks belonged to a local Community Church.
On the way back we were taken care of by my good friend's, Bob and Shelby's church, Crossroads Baptist. These folk unexpectedly bought all of our meals at a local Fuddruckers Restaurant. When we tried to talk Bob and his church out of doing such a deed, he insisted that they wanted to be part of our mission work in Cincinnati.
I had approached Bob a couple of months earlier about staying in their church building on the return trip to Cocoa. Bob said when he approached his fellow deacons about our request and told them of the mission work we were doing, he said to a man they all insisted that they would buy our dinner as the least they could do in coming along side a fellow church doing mission work in the name of the Lord.
How about that - a Community Church and a Baptist Church helping out a bunch of folks from a Church of Christ. In some ways its a shame that I would write that previous sentence as if such a practice is an exception rather than the norm. 3 different group of folks who love the Lord - helping each other - now that should be a common practice and perhaps one day it will.
I will get to the "Beltless" part of this post in my next posting. Its a story that demands its own space.
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That's the way it should have been all along. But then you may have never "come out of" your Baptist ways had we been actually cooperating with one another in the Kingdom.
I would like to think things are getting better everywhere...but the truth is I think I am just walking in broader circles where I can experience it.....But it is all good!!
Greg - Or stopped sacrificing chickens as well. :)
Judy - It is and it's cool when you get to give or in our case, receive it from folks who in the past would not have that opportunity.
Donna - Yes it is.
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Judy - It is and it's cool when you get to give or in our case, receive it from folks who in the past would not have that opportunity.
Donna - Yes it is.
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