Starting....

I'm just starting this out, trying it on for size, and i'm not really sure where it will go.

I'm moving in 6 weeks to be part of a church plant.
Just thinking about that sentence can feel ominous, but I love it. And I don't want this to be a church where people go to just hear scripture or sit in a pew and feel they've put their time in, paid their dues by sitting THROUGH something.
I want these words that are shared, these thoughts, to be challenging. Not only mentally, to be something that makes us think for a while and then we forget; I want this to be motivating, to be changing. What good is reading scripture or going to church if we leave it living the same as when we came to it?

And most of all I want an excuse to share my life fully with others, and to have others share their lives fully. Culturally, that's kind of frowned upon. We think we need huge barriers, or something to make us not so.... co-dependent. But we are, and we need to be. The body of Christ cannot be dismembered and function the way it's supposed to.

At the bible study I'm part of on Friday nights, we've just started up reading 1 Timothy, we've read up to chapter 4 so far. In prep for this Friday, there's a few verses that have really stuck out to me, and stayed with me.

1 Timothy 6:6-8
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.

are we really content with that? Could we be, if we started right now to live that, literally?

And a prayer that I want my life to be based on:

Proverbs 30:8
Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.

And to what is to be:

Psalms 49:3
My mouth will speak words of wisdom; the meditation of my heart will give you understanding...