Retooling, Dreaming Big
“So what’s going on with your blog?” Some have been asking me as of late. While it is still a work in progress, Curtis, Trina and I are working to recast this blogsite into an honest-to-goodness, true-blue website!
In hopes of raising awareness of what Trina and I are currently up to, and planning to do up in Chicago, she and I have been thinking (scheming may be a more appropriate word!) about how we might go about telling as many people as possible about our dream.
What is our dream anyway? Well, while we’re still getting the kinks worked out, its simply this: We desperately want to see people changed for Jesus – and we want to see these transformed lives in dynamic connection to each other, and in close reach of those who have not yet come into relationship with our Lord, all throughout the great city of Chicago. An entire metropolitan area of over 3 million people…that’s a dream that will take nothing short of an act from God. And that’s exactly what we’re praying for.
We don’t want to be the center of some kind of spiritual food chain or church planting movement. I don’t even want to think of things in terms of planting churches. Can I just be faithful with what and who the Lord has given me, and be happy to see him let it grow?
We don’t want to pass out tracts. We’re not going to Chicago to preach the same message heard 1,000 times over. In fact, there may be little to no preaching done at all (much to the chagrin of my homiletics professors!) Truly, we want our lives to be laid out on the altar for everyone to see – we will NOT live for our own sake, but for Christ’s mission. Helping the poor, enabling the disabled, fighting for justice…I could spend a lifetime doing just that.
So…the website…this is a platform for us to stand on. This is our pulpit. It is a place to cast the vision. It is a place to plead for the souls of Chicago, and for every North American. I know there are others already looking for radical, alternative ways to follow Christ’s “Way”. I want to find them. I want to learn from them, and I want to show them what I see God already doing right across this nation. This is the kind of thing that gives me goosebumps!
This isn’t about getting funds, though there will be a place on our site to support the work Trina and I will be doing. We want to intentionally share our vision with anyone who stumbles across our little corner of the web. More than anything, we beg that you lift us up to God for protection and support. This is kind of a new step for us. Please be patient; we’re going to put this site through a couple of face lifts. Let us know what you think!
