life is good to a 10 year old

David and Jacob went to the store to get root beer for root beer floats. After they found the root beer, they spotted a good deal on frozen pizza. As they made their purchase, Jacob said to David, "We are livin' the good life!" :) I love that he is so easy to please. I guess that's why Jesus told us to have the faith of a child! We ARE livin' the good life! When we have Jesus we have everything we need!

community

Yesterday we were visiting friends and talking about how important it is to be in community. The purpose of community is to point us to Jesus--to help us keep looking to Him as the author and finisher of our faith. I have been in communities that did that and some that didn't. One community in particular started out that way and then began to idolize itself. When a community begins to love themselves and value their community more than the One who gave them to each other, it begins to destroy itself. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote about this and can articulate much better than I). No one in that community is allowed to question them or say anything that might put them in a bad light. They are no longer resting in their Saviour but in their own "rightness". All their efforts are put into protecting their community and they will chastise anyone who dares to question them. It is heartbreaking to watch this happen. We must be careful as the body of Christ to love each other...to be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger. I might add, we must also to be quick to forgive. Don't let anyone hold anyone hold anything against you what Jesus has already forgiven.