We never had children so I don't know what it's like to have a love for each child that is unique to each child and is special and strong but to have no favorites among your children.
We now gather with three groups of people and we have a sort of parental relationship with each of them. Each gathering was formed out of different circumstances. To use the paradigm of Jim Moss, Sr., each group has a unique "personality."
The third of the groups to form met last night. The group is really in its fetus stage. We don't know what it will become because, honestly, at this point, we don't know what it is. Having said that, last night's gathering was special and sweet. Perhaps more so than any I have ever participated in.
I had the sense of being Paul in a new mission field at an early meeting of people who had just begun to embrace the gospel.
This small, but expanding, group is made up entirely of people we work with who have been attracted to our brand of piety as it is lived out by us on our jobs and have consented to come together with strangers to be spurred on to love and good works --much in the way Paul planted the gospel from town to town as a tentmaker.
The most special aspect of the gathering last night is that the kid who is living in our home and is working as an intern for Evie's employer joined us for our meal and then remained with us to take the bread and the cup after a long and arduous warning against taking unworthily.
He is your typical millennial. He was raised Catholic but hasn't gone to a Catholic church for years. He is untouched by institutional religion and uninspired by church but, based on what we saw last night, very interested in Jesus and in the gospel that proclaims Him as Lord.
More than our two other gatherings, to this point, this gathering centers on the gospel and the taking of the bread and cup in remembrance of His life, death and resurrection and in honor of the life He commands disciples to live.
What a blessing! We are blessed.
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