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Last weekend Kris and I were at Journey Community Church<\/strong><\/a>. Because Journey is committed to the Jesus Creed, the event felt like a homecoming rather than a speaking event. For the past four weeks they have been teaching the Jesus Creed, reading\u00a040 Days Living the Jesus Creed<\/a> <\/em><\/strong> together, and more importantly actively practicing the Jesus Creed.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>Before I spoke on this platform, a video was played on the screens, a video that contained four stories \u2014 ordinary and all the more important because ordinary \u2014 of how folks there are learning to live out the simple discipline of loving God and loving others. I told Kris several times that once those stories had been told, with the backdrop of the Jesus Creed being recited, there was little for me to add.<\/p>\n

Journey is the only church I\u2019ve spoken to that has a Friday evening service, so the three talks were Friday night and two Sunday morning. But a special event was planned for Saturday morning \u2014 two teaching sessions on the implications of The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. The first session was on \u201cthat was then, but this is now\u201d and I chose to examine how we live out what the Bible says about divorce and remarriage. (Tough enough topic.) The second session was on women in ministry, and I worked out a few themes in the Blue Parakeet book about women. The major question is not \u201cShould women be ordained?\u201d or \u201cShould women be called \u2018pastor\u2019?\u201d but \u201cWhat gifts is God giving to women?\u201d and \u201cDo we permit women to do in our churches what they did in the Bible?\u201d Here we looked at Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Mary, Priscilla, Phoebe, and Junia.<\/p>\n

No more until I mention a few names: Marko<\/strong><\/a> put Journey in contact with us, Ed Noble<\/strong><\/a> is the lead pastor whose honesty and humility made the event so rewarding, Kathie was our host, and Rod Kaya, and the worship team and those who prayed for us \u2026 and we got to stay at Marko and Jeannie\u2019s new home \u2026 and so many more. Journey is a place of grace and its leaders are setting the tone. Thanks Marko and Ed.<\/p>\n

Following services there was a time for me to interact with some of the folks at Journey and I cannot even begin to tell you of the number of folks who are learning the power of the Jesus Creed \u2014 of simply learning to love our neighbor as ourselves. One woman told me of her husband abandoning her for another woman and how she fought to get through it \u2026 and then to move to forgiveness \u2026 and how she vowed never to forgive the other woman \u2026 and how somehow God gave her the grace to forgive both her former husband and the woman. She struggled to tell me the story but it was surely a moment of God\u2019s grace.<\/p>\n

And another couple is beginning a ministry to those who are considering divorce to give marriage another try because, as he put it to me, \u201cmarriage is worth fighting for.\u201d She told me this story with her husband, and their own story was full of crooked lines.<\/p>\n

We had Saturday afternoon off, were given a car to use, and we headed for Coronado \u2026 and spent a good half hour on the bridge because of the air show (and a B52 flew over us as we were on top of the bridge) \u2026 but we had an absolutely glorious day on the island topped off with a wonderful (Valentine\u2019s) dinner at The Del. Kris thinks the best people watching place in the world is The Del. As the sun was going down I was watching a hummingbird fill itself for the night \u2026 and the little guy was about a foot from me at times. (Not sure if it was a guy or gal.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"