This isn't the first entry I have ever typed into this blog. But it is the first of a new pattern, a new start. I'm wondering how to phrase this right. But here are the basics. This blog will document the start of something I am being drawn into - a calling that will shape my life and the days ahead.
In the shortest terms, I am following God - and participating in a new church plant. A new faith community, you could say. There are no others involved at this time except God and me. And I am letting God bring the right leaders and participants together.
So, I hope that this will be a place were struggles and successes are fleshed out. Where resources are found and shared. Prayers whispered and screamed. And the story will unfold.
I will end each entry with a short set of anecdotes - and things I am reading, watching, and listening to.
The past: I am a pastor's son who never wanted to be a pastor. Until God changed my entire world 4 years ago.
The present: I am trying to pull a thesis project together for my last semester in seminary at Brite Divinity School.
The near future: telling my parents about my desire to leave my home church and participate in the community plant.
Reading: She by Saul Williams; Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby; A Primer on Postmodernism by Stanley Grenz
Watching: House of Boateng on the Sundance Channel; Brick; Winter Passing; The Office on NBC.
Listening to: a lot of Wilco, but also some Sufjan Stevens and the Shins
Shalom.
--Liles
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