Friday, August 28, 2015

Whats Next Lord?

Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.  Genesis 12:1

What is your country, who are your kindred and where is your fathers house? 

Hebrews 11:8
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 


When I was born, you could say I was born into the Baptist Church.  I am not exactly sure if it was a Bible Baptist Church here in town or First Baptist Church.  I then grew up at Calvary Baptist where I have a history of spiritual leaders to show me the way.  As a teenager, I bounced back and forth between Calvary, and First Baptist with some Bethel Baptist, and Grace Methodist thrown in.  There was a period "in the wilderness" from there but when I returned, I returned to First Baptist.  Then came my tenure at Bethel.  From there we moved to the mountain and the Baptist Church there.  Again, there were bits and pieces of the local Methodist church, the Baptist church from the next community over, the Church of Christ thrown in. 

When we moved off the mountain we were disenrolled from the Baptist church for "attending a church of different faith"  (The Methodist church by the way)  We were also attending an Assembly of God church with my niece from time to time but somehow that one wasn't a problem.  But, I digress. 

Back off the mountain we attended the Methodist church with in walking distance from our house, and the Assembly of God church to support my niece.  From there, due to some funny circumstances we began attending the Nazarene church near our house. 

(By the way, as I type this out I think I begin to understand why especially my youngest two feel constrained by denominational dogma.) 

For a while now, I have known that there are some major changes coming in the church we are currently attending. What is my part in these changes?  All of my children are moving in different directions, which is what children should do, but that brings me back to what is MY part in the next phase of God's Plan? All I seem to be able to do at the moment is to look toward Christ and say What is next in my journey?  What are my orders now? 

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