Well this is the month! I will blog
multiple times I am sure, about our official Kickoff Celebration on February 22, 2015
at 10:30 am. This is not just another day in Trinity’s history... it might be
considered the most important day in Trinity’s history.
This has been a long
journey, filled with very difficult questions: questions that led us to
discover what kind of church God was really calling us to be. It made us rethink what our
expectations should be. This celebration began forming a couple of years
ago when we were approached about selling our building and we had to ask what
kind of impact we were making on our city, if any. What kind of impact have we
ever made in our city? Should we sell? If so, where should we go? How
would a building be less of a “temple” and more of a “well", a place used to
engage people rather than just meet. How uncomfortable would this make us?
(we can answer that now…very uncomfortable at times!). What would this do to our attendance? Would we lose people?
Would we gain members? We set up different teams to help us answer these
questions and during this process we had team members step up with great ideas and
some even leave, but all contributed. Some who didn’t like the direction, helped the majority become more resolute in what we needed to be, while others who stayed sharpened our vision as what we needed to be. No doubt the Lord lit our path
and made things crystal clear. We have been able to strengthen our membership and our accountability. God has led new families to our fellowship, and has given
our entire church family a new passion and direction... this is worthy of celebration. This gives us opportunity to remind ourselves that He has
been faithful. Even when we didn’t see His hand, His heart was working for our
good and His glory. We will celebrate this milestone, this shaping period in our church family's life, but we will not attribute it to hard work or give ourselves a pat on the back for enduring through the inconvenience... we will celebrate our Lord who has been
faithful regardless of our unfaithfulness. We will celebrate that fact that we
have the opportunity to impact our community with the Gospel in a unique way we
have never been able to before. This is going to be a great day! A day worthy
of celebration and the one true God worthy of all of our adoration! Put it on your
calendars now.
