I'm a lousy blogger!

I have tried before to do the blog thing. I'm not going to tell you where or when or what. That would be silly. I typically have set up a blog, intending to fill it with all of the wonderful insights crowding my mind. Whether or not I really thought anyone would be interested is an issue for me to take up in spiritual counseling. The point for our purposes is that I would start a blog, post one or twice and then forget I even had the thing.

So what's the point of this blog?

I'm so glad you asked.

Today I launch a blog not to communicate anything within my own overcrowded mind, but to reach out to those who may be looking for a home in their faith that is fully catholic (rooted to the ancient practices and doctrines of the Christian faith), evangelical (passionate for the authority of the Scriptures and the power of the gospel to change lives) and charismatic (open to and dependant upon the gifts of the Spirit in the lives of believers). I represent a small group of believers in Wilson, NC who have come together in the conviction that God is calling us to form just such a home. We're a small house fellowship with a much larger vision. Not a vision for buildings and programs, but for a household of believers in love together with Christ, expressing that love in sacramental worship, in mutual discipleship, in outreach to those in need.

Although we all come to this from various traditions (pentecostal, baptist, episcopal, etc.), we are working in fellowship with the Anglican Mission in the Americas, a group of mission-minded Anglicans of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda. They are dedicated to church planting, evangelization of the unchurched, and faithfulness within the one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church of Jesus Christ.

This blog will be a place for teaching, for proclamation, and for dialogue.