mail, thom rainer, and richard foster

so i was telling someone the other day that the only mail i get is bills....and that is so true! and now even the only e-mail i get is bills....i got one today from the school telling me that october payment is due and one from citibank telling me that my student loan payment is due from the last school i attended....do you realize that between my citibank loan and my car loan i am abut 30k in debt....dude that is alot of money for little boy like myself....

but i did have taco bell for supper....one can't not eat right?

so yea i got the new thom rainer book essential churches....i think it is gonna be good.....but in reality we will never be able to "re-claim the de-churched" until our membership gets it.....we have to teach them to stop looking inward and begin to understand what our call is....we are to go out and make disciples.....we think we are pretty dang good at disciplship but it is all for naught if we are not discipling new people!...and in reality if we were really good at discipling our church members then this issue would be mute...they/we would be out there fulfilling their calling.....

i read this quote tonight in Foster's Celebration of Dicisipline

"In our day haven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emergence of a Spirit-let, Spirit-intoxicated, Spirit-empowered people. All creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr-people who know in this life the life power of the Kingdom of God. It has happened before. It can happen again." (Foster, 175)