Fresh beginnings

Its a long time since I have been tempted to write a blog post, in part because life for the past year has been one of change and transition, but several months ago, in an exercise to find a purpose statement for our church these words came together, and well somehow it seems like they deserve to live.

In a world where too often our faith is shaped by our culture, our understanding of God by our concrete attachment to what we can see and hear and touch, it seems like we are missing something of the amazing reality of the person who shaped us, loved us, redeemed us and called us to join him in his work of reclaiming HIS world.

In the last few months HE has threatened to turn that concreteness upside down. Its taken me a while to want to take the plunge, and yet the call to live by grace, to follow and to trust is s Calvin would state it - irresistible.