Day 70 and more jetlag, again.

I'm sorry folks I missed days 68 and 69! Flying to the UK for my mother-in-laws funeral service. This makes it Day 70.
This might happen again folks - so asking for grace in advance.
One reason - do you know San Francisco International Airport don't have free wifi!! And I'm Scottish and not paying for it.

Now at my brothers and using his for free!!

Travel is not as glamorous and people tell you. Lots of waiting, lots of strangers, lots of public restrooms, lots of hurrying between Gates.

I hear stories of incredible pastors who sit next to strangers on airplanes and by the time they land in Cincinnati the pastor has led someone to faith in Christ - often involving a napkin drawing!
But for me - the strangers on the flights I take - want their space, want their silence and the last thing they want is some nutter talking to them while they fly red-eye to London!

So ....possibly I'm a failure.

However, I did walk the corridors of SFO from 6.30 to 7.00 on Wednesday evening praying out loud for our Alpha launch taking place in Reedley. People did look at me oddly. But, God answered and people are returning next week to begin some new steps in their faith journey.

Flying, strangers, planes.

It is a very surreal world. You read your seat screen and discover that you are flying at 590mph, 39,000 feet in the air and it is -74F outside. But as you read that all you hear is a low hum and everything is silent. The most surreal moment ...when you begin to descend and you enter a fluffy bank of brilliant white clouds...and you have to then totally trust that the pilot and his equipment are sure there is somewhere down there we are heading to.

Its an analogy of so many churches - they are flying along at a crazy pace above the clouds and somewhere beneath them, where you cant' see, there is a real world below.

Healthy churches crash through the clouds. Everything is about bringing heaven to earth, not heaven staying up there. but when you crash through the clouds - you have to trust there is something down there were you can land.

More to write ....but gotta go.
Think about it some more. Just now Redeemer's Church is thinking about crashing through another cloud bank to land our plane on a new runway. This is faith. It has to be faith.