been a while

Been quite a while since I posted.  Whole summer passed by and now deep into the Fall.  Love this time of year.  Been extremely busy at the job - keeping the HQ up and running network and telecom-wise in the midst of hurricane season.  A lot of fun, exhausting.  Just read a buddy's blog on him being melancholy - gotta admit I'm feeling a little that way too.  Neat things going on at our local fellowship with a new (sorta) senior pastor - saying goodbye to our old one after 14 years.  Much like the rest of us who were military and came and went we have sent him off on a new mission.  Kinda cool watching folks get charged up on reaching out to the community - but the challenge is to get my generation to understand the next generation is into relationships.  There will be new methods to reach folks with the love of God and that entails getting into their lives.  For example I know that right now as I'm typing this two of the next-gen guys are down at the ball fields playing baseball with a bunch of latino guys - just a couple of gringos asking to play ball with them.  Today they were taking a box or two of baseballs as a gift.  They're being intentional in being part of the lifes of these fellas in hopes of sharing the love of Christ with them somewhere down the line.

When you really think about it that's the way Christ did his ministry - it was being involved intentionally in peoples' lives not just going up and down the street on a one time door-knocking campaign.  Maybe back in the day when Americans had a common knowledge of the bible and of God that made sense.  I'm not knocking folks who want to do this but maybe we should be getting involved in the lives of folks and maybe we can get a hearing?