It's Been a While

I know it has been over a month since I last blogged. Why you ask? Because I really have been chewing on some stuff.... in a really good way.

I know it often hard to swallow that a pastor might be left speechless but I find that so many times I am, and that is when I best hear God speak to me.

I have been on a reading binge. Funny because I really don't enjoy leisure reading. I love research but not reading for the sake of something to do but lately have been compelled to. That reading along with my Bible study has been great for me. For the past month, I have been listening and not speaking, which means I have been taking a lot more in than I have been dishing out.

It kind of sound spiritually stingy in a way but how often, due the weekly duties, is a pastor motivated to regurgitate some conglomeration of past sermons in order to occupy 45 minutes of his parishioners time? How often do we speak preemptively because the "calendar" tells us its time? How often are we blowing smoke and not speaking a fresh, living word?

I am ready to listen. I am also ready to admit that I have no material for service and that perhaps there is reason God hasn't led me to say something. Maybe he desires that impromptuitiveness of the early church. Maybe he wants someone else to share. Maybe he just wants his people to come together to worship him without an agenda.

It sounds good to me.