For I am confident in this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Phil. 1:6

Can I just be honest and say, moving forward on something you feel God is calling you to is scary and takes a lot of prayer, courage, wisdom, humility and encouragement.  

God has given each of us a gift.  We are to use them well to serve one another.  (1 Peter 4:10)  This has been a process of discovery for me, I suppose for most it is, but I know of others that just seem to know there gifting and it grew easily for them.  Not so with me, it took experimenting, it took testing and trying, a process of elimination.  I don't think God was hiding it from me, or making it difficult to discover, it's just coming to know and when you do to trust and most importantly believe.   

Now that I know what I am passionate about, and it operates through the gift He has given me.  It takes courage to move forward in your gift and trust God will handle what needs the courage.  The courage for me is fighting the fear of rejection.  Rejection will happen but then having the humility to continue to move forward regardless, because you know that you know what God has entrusted to you.  What I have found that I am truly thankful for in this process journey, is encouragement received from a handful of friends and family.   I know there is the handful of cynics and skeptics lurking to, Jesus did say to expect it, no prophet is accepted in his own town.  I get it, we are human and with that comes some messy and that's ok.  Transformation is a process, we all are being transformed into his image from one degree of glory to another.  Patients and prayer for one another.  Just. keep. moving. forward.

We only have one life on earth, and it's a mist, here today gone tomorrow, so do life big, God big!  I move forward with great expectation and with a sense of invitation, not to spare them, cause there is that one....look. for. that. one. and sip together.

The coffee house pastor

I am student of Scripture.  One who loves to dig in and study it.  I don't think one can "arrive" when it comes to knowing the Scriptures.  There is layer upon layer of greatness to discover.  There is no other book like the bible.  It's living and active, the very breath of God on man made pages.  Oh I know, there are skeptics that would disagree, that it was flawed by the human mind and hand.  Though, if the skeptic would truly study it wholeheartedly setting aside preconceived notions and opinions, I'm willing to bet (if I were a betting woman) the skeptic would turn believer, faster than their knees could hit the ground in prayer.

I love seeing eyes opening in the "Aha" moments as someone studies.   With each "Aha" their heart grows closer to Jesus.  That's what studying the Bible does.  It turns the innards of the heart out, loving Jesus more as it exposes and redeems humanity in a mere breath.  When inhaled it transforms.  This is my passion, my calling, to be a student of Scripture walking along side other students. 

A SOS is a Student of Scripture also serving as answer to a distress call for guidance in study.  We meet together in coffee shops, one on one or as a group.  My joy would be that as we sip coffee together outside church walls built by human hands, passionately studying the Scriptures, that relationships with Jesus and one another would flourish as we be The Church.

Jesus captured my heart and gave me a love for His Word that has been untamed for almost a decade now.  I pray it stays a wild love, because tame love is just...well it's just lame.  Loving wildly, doesn't get any better.

Whether you are a SOS or dipping your toe in the river of possibility, let's sip coffee and Scripture at the local coffee house together!

The coffee house pastor.