Real Men

On Thursday nights, there is a group of about 8 guys who meet together at restaurants in the area and we talk theology. This isn’t some weepy eyed meeting where we all just share our “feelings”, but an opportunity to get serious about the truth; the truth about God and the ugly truth about ourselves.  Tonight, though, we never got to our subject.  It is so cool how God intervenes at times to get an entirely different point across.  Our conversation turned toward what God is doing in our hearts and how He is causing us to look beyond ourselves to living as missionaries in our culture.  The whole group is so discontent with cultural Christianity and desperate for real authenticity in their own lives and in the life of our new church, The Journey.

There seems to be so many plastic spiritual imitations out there in the modern church.  Our great desire is to be real, and for the focus of all that we do to be about Jesus and His mission.  This group of guys is going to be used in phenomenal ways in the future.  God will raise up leaders from them and will affect future generations through their faithful and tenacious commitment to the faith “once for all delivered.”

I look forward, with great anticipation, to see what God will do through these men and those who will come after them.  God be praised for their future obedience and victory.

About

We are a new church plant on the west side of Atlanta in the Austell and Mableton area. At the Journey, we are trying to re-form the church around the teachings and example of Jesus Himself while building relational bridges to people in the current culture. Out with the self-righteous, judgmental attitudes and the useless religious traditionalism, and in with the fresh wind of the timeless teachings of love and forgiveness, acceptance and repentance. Come and find a home at The Journey.