Stones

I'm about 12 months from leaving seminary and heading out to... somewhere. I've been thinking alot about Somewhere. I have some really high hopes for that place. I wonder about where it actually is located. I've given God some suggestions about that one. I think about what the people will be like. The staff. The students. The neighborhood. The needs.

One of the things that seminary has helped me to do is solidify some thoughts. One of those has to do with stepping stones. Churches are sometimes used like stepping stones. Guys hop from one to the next on their way to...Somewhere. It doesn't seem like ministry should work quite like that. It seems more like a river. You jump in and are swept away.

I want to be in line with what God wants me to be doing. Not tiptoeing around trying to keep my shoes dry. My biggest hope is that we will go somewhere and be used. I don't want to skip around, always looking for the next thing. I want to plant somewhere and stay a while.