Going full time

I'm into my first week of full time church planting now. Almost all of the books are out of my old office...and piled all over the floor in my new office at home. I've got one bookcase on order and am working on plans to redo one of my closets to hold a bunch more of the my seemingly endless supply of scholarly tomes.

It's been a great week so far. Meeting with people in our core group. Meeting with people who are still checking us out. Sitting around our backyard fireplace with people and discussing all kinds of aspects of what our new church will be like (that's the way to have a church meeting--with 'smores!).

Things are beginning to coalesce, beginning to take shape. On our immediate agenda is finalizing our name and doing some legwork to get a facility secured for our first real worship service in October. Hopefully I'll have news on both of those fronts soon.