The most significant spiritual exercise in my life right now is not my journey through Oswald Chambers' book. Instead, it is preparing myself and Prince Street Church to hold a Service of Repentance that is challenging me most significantly.
Let me give some brief background. Over the past few months, our leadership team and others have been looking at our history as a church. Some of what we have found is wonderful. Some is not. And we believe that God is calling us as a church to confess our sin before Him, asking for His forgiveness and healing.
That service is scheduled for Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 9:45 am.
The question we're wrestling with concerns what to include in this service. Essentially, we are asking the Holy Spirit to show us what we need to do together. And that means we are totally out of control. I haven't always been comfortable with that idea. I would have liked to at least have an outline to follow.
There have been many times in this process that I have become frustrated in not knowing what to do next. My only option has been to cry out to God. And every time I've gotten there, you know what I've found? His grace.
When I come to the end of my resources, God is sufficient. This is not a new lesson, but one I'm learning at a completely different level. Thanks be to God!
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