Spiritual Battles
It has been a month since my last post. Wonder why?
About 6 months ago, I began to experience this great awakening in my faith. God was pulling together resources from a lot of angles and converging events in my life. In my first posts on this blog, I wrote of the excitement and energy I was feeling from my renewed relationship with God. I spoke of just getting a taste of it and desperately wanting to hold onto the freshness of my relationship.
The months went by and God presented a lot of exciting opportunities to me. Michael Harris and I took a bold step of challenging 20 men at Wynnbrook to read The Barbarian Way and join us on a new adventure. We met during the summer and had 10-12 men each week coming to our group. I was disappointed that 6-7 of the men we sent the book to never responded. I've run into a few of them over the summer and they have never even mentioned "hey thanks for the book and invite but I just couldn't fit it in..." They didn't say squat.
Our meetings went well but began to fizzle some later in the summer. We took a break to allow for vacations and when I returned I learned the consensus of some of the group was we should meet monthly instead of weekly. With that, the momentum we had building collapsed like a sail on still lake. This effort to reach men and energize them in their faith has ground to a halt.
10 months ago I was flat as a pancake but God woke me up 6 months ago and gave me a new charge to reach out to other men and start a ministry to them. 3 months ago I was hitting a new high daily. And like the sun coming up in the morning, you could have predicted what was about to happen...spiritual warfare was about to kick in.
Fastforward to today and the sail is flat and the ship is directionless. That said, today, I am kicking off phase two of this awakening. I am not going to crawl back under my blanket and hide. I am going to reach out, start over and get our group back up and running. We are going to do Eldredge's Wild At Heart (the video series) and we are going to push this question of "how do we awaken the passion in men for Christ?"
Pray for me and us as we once again try to Soar.
