This weekend I had the privilege of sharing what has happened at Holy Cross over the last 25 years with six pastors from around he country. Whenever I tell the story, I am struck with just how blessed we are and have been!
The Pastors who come take notes and gather information with the idea that somehow what is happening here can happen at their own congregations, and that is certainly our prayer and the reason that we spend this time together, but the fact is that it is the blessing of God that will transform their congregations.
One of the questions that they kept asking was how did you know which things would work? I told them what I have come to believe and that is that we have a tendency to plan where we would like to go and then we ask God to go there with us. Instead we need to look around us and see what God is blessing and then go there! Whenever I have tried to plan just what would work for Holy Cross it has failed. The things that have worked are the things that I would say just "fell into our laps". Again and again God has shown me that it is in His time and in His way that He will bless us in our task of reaching the lost for Christ in the Central Florida Area!
Do you think that this attitude works in our personal lives as well? Should we be looking for where God is blessing you and your family and go in that direction?
What do you think?
In Christ,
Paul Hoyer
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