We had our second worship as Urban Village Church last night and it was another great experience. We had about 110 people attend and in the midst of singing the songs and listening to Trey preach and investigating strange noises, I also took time to look around and just marvel at everything.
I thought back to the day in June 2007 when I first read the article in Chicago Magazine about the South Loop neighborhood, when the idea was first planted. I thought about the time that Trey and I went to our district superintendent a few months later with this idea of doing something together. Neither of us really could be sure whether we'd get the green light. I thought back to this summer when we'd be thrilled if one or two people expressed even a scintilla of interest in this new church. And then last night. Dozens of people had come together. It really is remarkable and speaks to taking that next step whenever God plants an idea in your head. I believe God does that all the time (planting the ideas), but too often we don't do anything with it. I've been guilty of this many times. Life happens, after all. We have the day-to-day stuff that we must attend to and we don't really have time to take action on God Ideas. But, truly, amazing things can happen if we even give these ideas the tiniest bit of attention and take the smallest steps. Things may not always take off quickly and may not flourish like you initially envisioned, but still. It's a pretty awesome thing to see something come out of nothing. I think there's a story in Genesis about that.
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