When God Speaks (2)........

AND SOMETIMES HE SAYS "NO"!
Continuing from the March 2 post:
Ten years later, our youngest daughter was about to graduate from high school. Dana and I had been growing more dissatisfied with our church – mostly with the leadership’s reluctance to implement or even allow Spirit-led changes in methods, practices and ministries, and I frequently found myself out on the “edge of orthodoxy” and being increasingly marginalized. My role as a deacon, Bible class teacher and as a frequent participant in the public worship was being reduced continually, and we felt the need to move on and change congregations, but we stayed due to some good friends and to allow our girls to complete their Youth Group experience. Our attitude and our words were increasingly negative. The church was entering the process of selecting additional elders that spring, and several friends wanted to submit my name. It seemed like I would be a controversial nomination, but I was praying for guidance. The weekend we were out in Midland attending the Stream in the Desert worship conference, I got my guidance in the middle of the night, as I clearly understood that I should not allow my name to be introduced into the elder selection process. I did not fully understand why, at that time.
More later....

The Best Show on Television!

Battlestar Galactica has begun its fourth and final season. Even non-science fiction fans can appreciate it, if you dare to watch the SciFi Channel. The show has plenty of action, but also plenty of drama, with well-developed, interesting and complex characters galore, and storylines that constantly explore the boundaries between faith and doubt, parent-child relationships which haunt both, good works being done through really bad individuals, the nature of revelation and worship and prayer and true believers. If you want to get caught up on the history of the first three seasons, try this.

And what a class act to point the story to a definite conclusion, revealing answers and pieces of the puzzle along the way! Enjoy!