Who would have thought?

Who would have thought…
that six years later we would be constituting as an independent church. I didn’t think it would be six years. I thought sooner. Some may have thought it would never happen. To be honest I have had those thoughts several times.

Here we are on the eve of our Coming of Age Celebration, Sunday September 12, 2010. We are coming of age to embark in the Kingdom of God as an independent church. I don’t know exactly how to say how I feel. In some ways it is just a continuation of life as we have lived for some time. In other ways it is the “drawing of a line in the sand” defining an ending of one relationship and a beginning of another; an ending to a fabulous partnership with First Baptist Church of Springfield and the beginning of a friendship as sister churches in God’s Kingdom.

I could not have imagined how blessed me and my family would be by the process and more importantly the people. The people of First Baptist and the people of Crossroads are and continue to be amazing. It is amazing to me how God works in spite of our thoughts and imagination to will and to create. My thoughts were different. I thought it would be easier to get to this point. I thought we would be larger in numbers at this point. I thought it would be quicker and easier to affect change in lives for God’s glory. All I thought was wrong. Someone asked me how much time I thought something would take and in a moment of clarity I said “it doesn’t matter what number I tell you it won’t be right.” It never has been so why should it start now? God’s time is God‘s time. Always right on and perfect just not much like mine.

Who would have thought?

Certainly not me.