Coffee House last night

Well, we did it. Our first meeting. Thanks to everyone that attended. It was a rich time for me personally to hear you all share as you did. Hopefully those that couldn't be there will consider coming next time or sometime in the summer.

Instead of the usual blog from the newspaper, I thought I'd share a thought that crossed my head last night about ONE of the many reasons that it was so good.

Paul warns Timothy in his charge in 2 Tim to be prepared to preach the Word because there will be a day when people won't listen to sound doctrine (or "TRUTH"!) but instead will gather around them people that will say what they want to hear. In other words, instead of pursuing what's right, we're just going to find people to justify what we already think or do. Instinctively, we are all like that. We don't tend to spend time with people vastly different than us. We tend to be with people that already think somewhat similarly to us.

But as I looked around the table (and as I think about the concept of church), we are all very different! I wasn't sure what others were thinking about what I was saying. Several times, I was aware of the fact that not everyone was agreeing with what was being said. Some of it was far from "what my itching ears WANTED to hear". But we were together searching for God - searching for sound doctrine - truth. And that is bigger than my opinion or anyone else's - except God's.

I've never seen iron sharpen iron before but I'm sure it's quite a sparkshow.