An Epic Journey

Sometimes you just need a good whack!

Jenni and I have really been wrestling with where the exact location of Epic Church is going to rest.  We have been looking over demographics and cost of living, where our strategy would fit best, etc.  It really has been a little bit frustrating if I were totally honest.  We are convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that God has called us into Church Planting, but don’t know where that is going to be lived out.

Yesterday, I was talking about this with Justin from The Heartland Project, and he gave me the whack I needed.  Justin asked me to quit worrying about all of the details and to ask one simple question, this is my paraphrase of the question, “Who are the people that God is burning a whole in your heart to reach?  Where do they live?”  Honestly, I was a little blown away - in a good way.  I needed someone to knock me out of my state of worry and into a state of anticipation.  I am fasting the next couple of days seeking God on this issue.  I need you to be praying with Jenni and I about this.  We honestly have some great opportunities in front of us, each is coupled with it’s own difficulty.  I am confident of this:  I need a fire for a people lit in my bones.  I need to want to serve the community we land in, not as a strategy, but as an overflow of the passion God has placed in my heart for those people.

This is where it all begins…

This is where we hit the ground running…  would you pray over the next couple of days with Jenni and I - would you even consider fasting with me?  This is the biggest decision we have made in our adult lives, everything will be altered by this and there are no guarantees, only faith that God has lit a fire!