Fellowship and Fireworks

This week we decided to switch our meeting of the church to Saturday this week, naughty I know. Oh well, it was fun anyway.

Brian has been establishing a relationship with a co-worker for a while now. "E" lives pretty close to the Church at Farmington, so whenever we are going to be up there Brian invites him. He never comes, but doesn't act totally closed off to the idea. This week he decided to come check it out and hang out with us for the 4th.

When I asked Brian if E was a believer, Brian said, "Kind of." Doug and I got a kick out of that, saying things along the lines of, "Is that like being kind of pregnant?" Anyway, E may have made a decision at one point to follow Christ, but He is certainly not the Lord of his life...E doesn't exhibit any signs of being a true believer, except for the fact that he is convicted of his sin. So that's a start.

We had a great meal and were talking about mixed martial arts at dinner. After dinner the women retreated to the living room to discuss whether or not we were trying save our children...and if that's good or bad. The men stayed in the kitchen and discussed salvation with E. Interestingly enough they covered various subjects from the Bible to Oprah, and just as the conversation started to get good, E decided he needed to leave to go see the fireworks. Brian, not to be discouraged, gave him a parting gift of telling him that no matter what, Jesus is still the answer and no amount of psychobabble was going to change that.

So we will see what happens at work this week. Please pray for E and for Brian's conversations with him. Next week Brian and I will be in Vegas, and then the week after we will be camping with our kids. Anyone wanting to meet will need to put on their big kid pants and take care of that themselves ;) MR