So Stormie asked Manda to speak at the first Real Life (our ministry’s Thursday night worship gathering) of the semester. If you know Manda, you know that this made her horribly nervous (and if you don’t know her, know that this made her horribly nervous).
The first series is on healthy relationships, and she introduced it. She talked about the importance of relationships, and the fact that not only are relationships inevitable in our lives, but that they’re a good thing.
She used the Trinity as her model, and argued that because God is communal in nature, we too were created to be – that when we live in relationship with other people, we’re at our best.
She offered us some good challenges, and I think in response, I’m going to renew my commitment to meet two new persons each week at Real Life. Maybe I’ll start doing the same thing at Parkade on Sunday mornings as well.
We’ll see what happens. In the words of the wise Tobias Funke, “Let the great experiment begin!”
now I am even more disapointed that I missed it – though I am downloading the pcast.
thank you for the encouragement. and i was thinking about that too…i am going to try and be more committed to not being caught up in the craziness that a thursday night entails. i am definitely going to copy off you and hope i meet more people because of it.