Barbarians!!!!

So the past week has been quite eventful. Since my last post, we have visited the hospital to take a tour of the maternity department, enjoyed watching Isaac "play basketball" in his Sat. morning league, and many other semi-important things.

Sunday was another good day at church. I preached a sermon on vision and its necessity in the church. We had another high attendance, 107, with a number of regular attenders absent. This week I preach on strategy and accomplishing our vision and mission. Congregational meeting following the service. Those are usually a lot of fun. (Note the sarcasm.)

I continue to get busier and busier with church details. That may sound like I am complaining, but that is certainly not the case. I am enjoying the details that we are engrossing ourselves in right now. They are the necessary details that must be in place for the church to grow and fulfill its mission of reaching out to our community. I am very, very excited about what's going on here.

Susan had an appointment on Tuesday in which the doctor said everything was looking normal and just to be ready. Thursday morning, Susan thought that possibly her "water" had "broken". (I put it in quotes because I am not sure if those are the real scientific terms for that process.) So we call the doctor and they tell us to go to the hospital. (Good thing we took the tour on Friday night.) After laying in the triage unit for a while enduring multiple contractions they come in to tell us that in fact it was not the case. And so we wait. However, the nurses said, like the doctor, that the baby looks perfectly healthy.

I went to Isaac's school today. It's Dad Comes to School week today and all of next week. I told about my job as a minister/pastor/preacher (depending on what these kids understand it to be), and read a book to them. After reading the book, one of the kids asked me if I could tell them a little bit about God. I looked at the teacher, who has been quite supportive of "religious" efforts in the school, and said, "I could, but I don't think that right now is the best time or place." I did eventually tell them, "I can tell you this: God loves you very much." It was nice to be put in that situation. I look forward to more like it.

Been reading The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus. Very good and challenging book. He says that Christians today have become "civilized" and "domesticated" instead of being the barbarian kind of Christians that we see in the New Testament. Very interesting thought. Any comments from you all?

Have a good one. I'll let you know when the baby comes. (At some point!)