cooler, even Cold feeling, weather has crept up. Rising to our armpits, like flood waters. We're all "summered up" with our capillaries dishing our heat out too quickly to be comfortable in this beautiful coolness. Some of our people have come to hate the cold. They're glamourous and thin. They don't have the flab it takes to enjoy the cold...
Check out this morning down at the Sidewinder. I can't come here without making new friends, lately. Do any of you know the story of how we came to be here? It is God's gift that I am part of Jesus building His church, by being available to be friends with people in coffee shops... it's the place where I find the best apologies made... apologies for the crazy way that we have lived out the continuation of the story of the Scriptures... apologies in the "greek" sense-the reason for the Hope we have... Above all, this is a place where I hear from God. He speaks to me in the people who sit around me. I hear the whirlwind of the love of God for us all, as he is calling us to Jesus...
Yesterday, a neighbor got loved. She's moving out. She can't take it. Her life is out of control. He kids have life-sized problems...problems that have grown out of her problems... that have grown out of her parents' problems... We're moving her out. We'll take care of the truck, the driving, all that. She's getting loved.
She's an honest soul. ask her.
Yesterday, a roofer gave me an estimate. 35,000 dollars. I TOLD you it was a really big job. You don't get a missional community house without a big roof, you know?
You know where Jesus told us to lend to those who ask? That was back when if the end of the harvest came and you didn't have enough, you lost your land and were deported from your inheritance... That was issued under the legislation of Moses...
Well, whom is there in the whole American church of that I can ask such a thing of? We are too busy LIVING... too busy loving... to do it all ourselves. We aren't craftsmen. We aren't investors, or entrepreneurs...
Come and see.
Really, come and see. There's no way you can resist the love that pours out around here... and the more love there is, the more love there is...
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