August 2015 - A Year's Journey

This month is the year mark from when we started our church planting journey. This month last year we announced to all our friends and family that we were moving to Macon, Georgia to plant a church. We packed up our entire life and moved to Macon only seeking to obey what we felt God calling us to do. It would be too long of a post to tell you all that has happened but It is a journey that is still beginning. 

"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." (James 1:2-4 ESV) 

I look back and it doesn't feel like it has been a year but it has. I'm here to say that the last year has been more about us than Macon, Georgia. The last year has not been easy by any stretch of the imagination. Every trial and difficulty has forced me to examine what I believe and my faith in what God is able to do. He has been faithful to complete and perfect the deposit he has put within us. 

Brave people have embarked on this journey with us. I am so thankful for all the people that surround us and can't wait to see what he continues to do through each of us and in us.

There have been many times I thought there was nothing happening on the surface. I learned that many times we totally discount what Holy Spirit is doing behind the scenes because we put so much stock in what we are doing, or that we need to be doing something in order for lives to be changed. I learned on many occasions that I really was not needed to change people's lives but rather I have the privilege to be involved in this great story of redemption.

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.” (2 Corinthians 4:7 ESV)

The way I feel now compared to last year is fragile. That is the only word that comes to mind at the moment. That in and of myself I am weak, but in Christ I am made strong. I was always this way but now I know it. I understand now as the above scripture says that "the surpassing power belongs to God and not us." I don't know if many people will admit it, especially us young people, but we think alot of what we think WE can do. Not really understanding that what is really great is the Holy Spirit within.

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." (Matthew 9:37-38)

As we move forward we are contending for the city of Macon. As of 2013 the population of Macon was 89,981. The population of Bibb county was 154,721. We believe there is a great harvest in Macon, Georgia and that great and glorious days await this city.