Homecoming

Being at home always brings back memories for me that I would want to forget.  I rarely went down the straight and narrow path growing up.  The reason I don't like going home is because people do not let you change even though I have changed or better yet how Christ has changed me.  My partner in crime, Dave, who is my best friend from high school, has been there with me through thick and thin.  We often reminisce about some of our wild times and how others doubted us that we would amount to anything.  The great thing about coming home this week is that Dave and I met up.  It's really funny when we went out this afternoon, especially seeing people that knew us in high school because we are totally different people.  In Dave's case he as earned a PHD in biochemical pharmacology and is doing his post doctorate at Yale in the neurology department.  And I'm a Methodist pastor!  I have learned not to give up on anybody because a few people in my life didn't give up on me, more importantly God.  As pastor of Embrace, I'm not just looking forward to our launch service but post-launch, specifically, whom I can identify as our next church planters…it may be surprising who God raises up for such a time as this.