visions of a christ-filled church

Wow, just read this incredible post on dan kimball's blog. What a bold, powerful idea -- ask your church to answer the question: I dream of a church _____? Who knows what you'll get -- trivial comments, critical comments, comments that completely miss it, and comments that are just beautiful. Dan Kimball posted some of the latter; beautiful and inspiring type comments. Here's a sample:

I Dream of a church...

... that is more about helping others than about us
... that listens to the Holy Spirit and is bigger than man's efforts
... is a soft place to fall; that is a daily part of my life; that doesn't feel like a wall; that is the heartbeat of Christ
... that gets lost in worshiping Jesus and lingers in His presence

PLEASE READ THIS POST!! It has got to be a snapshot of how I envision the Church of our future. When I read stuff like that my mind swirls with thoughts of "yeah, that's how it should be" and "wow, I want to be a part of that!" And then I feel the soft tugging rising in me "well, are you just going to read and talk about it, or are you going to get out there and see it done?" Calling? Optimism? Natural Desire of a redeemed heart? I don't know.

I am so blessed to be a part of a community that looks a lot like the one envisioned by dan kimball's church. We're not entirely there, but our heart is captured by that vision and we're pursuing it together. We call ourselves dcf and we'd love to have you pursue it with us if you ever find yourself in Clemson.

and so it begins

So I've had this blog for quite some time now. Remember back then when google bought blogger.com? (Ok so you won't remember that unless you're a google evangelist like me). Yeah, that's when I signed up. And this is my first post. Over a year later. Man, I sure am the cutting edge, early-adopter type.

What will this be about? Well I'm just going to use this blog as a place to put some thoughts down in writing. I find that writing through thoughts helps me to realize how much of what I'm thinking about is just crap and what is worth remembering. On any given day, I'm probably thinking about some pretty big things like what a life of faith looks like, what a Christ-infused church looks like, and what my future wife looks like. I also really like cutting-edge technology and it's impact on our society and government policy. So forgive when I throw out words like AJAX, web 2.0, net-neutrality and the like.

I'm just a college student with an hopeful eye towards a God-redeemed future. Enjoy my thoughts.