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Pastor David Butler and his dear wife, Gayle, hosted Kris and me this weekend at Springdale Community Church<\/a> in Louisville, Kentucky, and were we treated to kindness! But even more than that, we loved the fellowship and the reports of the ministry flowing into and out of Sprindale. Where to begin?
\nI begin with this: David and Gayle have been there for 18 years, and the work began with two other families \u2014 it is now a thriving multi-generational and vibrant seeker-sensitive ministry. David spoke like a caring pastor about everyone \u2014 ne\u2019er a discouraging word. Gayle works with the process of \u201cassimilating\u201d folks into the ministries of Sprindale. Kris and I really clicked with them and talked about all that is going on there until we got home.
\nI\u2019m reading Sandage and Shults, The Faces of Forgiveness<\/em>, wherein the authors work out the theme of \u201cface\u201d (facing God, facing others, facing self), and Sandage esp gets into how faces speak and record our emotions. I got to thinking Sunday evening about the faces of David and Gayle, and I think both of them have the \u201cface of grace\u201d and Springdale itself is a \u201cface of grace\u201d \u2014 a place where God\u2019s face of grace smiles on others and where people learn to face one another with grace.
\nWe\u2019ve been speaking in a few place lately and we are impressed with the vibrancy of churches across this land of ours. We like the \u201csalt of the earth\u201d Christians. One 8th grader asked me where I was teaching because, as she said it, \u201cI like your teaching style\u201d and \u201cI don\u2019t want to wait until the last minute before I decide where to go to college.\u201d You go girl!
\nDave Miller<\/a> was the worship leader for the weekend. Dave has a real fine sense of mood and tone of music so everything seemed smooth as silk. Just the right preparation for my talk on purpose (a Jesus Creed talk). I have to emphasize that I\u2019m not a homiletician but a teacher, and that seems to alleve folks of the thoughts that I just might not do things right. I don\u2019t like pulpits \u2014 they make me freeze. So I was given the freedom to walk around.
\nWe met a bunch of Southern Seminary students, and I\u2019m glad to see seminary students in church \u2014 and I hope they are serving and not \u201cpreparing to serve\u201d \u2014 service isn\u2019t learned in a classroom but in serving. Jeremy hosted us and made sure we got were we needed to be \u2013 thanks, Jeremy!
\nFour folks were baptized, and one young woman read her story and it was moving. No reason for me even to begin, but I know Springdale was proud of her confession. She\u2019s in the middle of a caring church, and I\u2019m praying for her and them.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"