WEDNESDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY STARTING AGAIN

I am excited about our midweek Bible study starting up again tonight. We took a break for several months while we prayed about what God wanted to do with it. Karen and I both felt that we still need to have a mid-week study, but we were not sure about the format of it. Starting tonight, and for the rest of the summer, we will be meeting outdoors for a shorter study and plenty of fellowship. We will also have some evenings of worship around the camp fire later in the summer.

We have found over the years that summers in Gunnison are a perfect time for building strong friendships that serve to keep our lives strong through good times and bad. We have seen countless examples of Christian people that do not value connecting with other members of the body of Christ, and in most cases, they feel that they simply don't need those relationships. They feel fine, until a storm strikes their life. At that point they have no one to help them through, or hold them accountable, or encourage them with the Word of God.

There are just no two ways about it, God intends for all of us to be joined to some other believers in our lives and to serve other people with the gifts that He has placed in us. Disconnected people are vulnerable to attack, and often fall where they could have stood strong. So, we need to be intentional about building and maintaining genuine Christian friendships. Believe it or not, as unspiritual as it may sound, coming out consistently on Wednesday nights, studying the Scripture for a while, then walking, or fishing, or roasting a marshmallow with a friend or two, might be one of the most powerful decisions you ever make.

For weekly information on the location of our mid-week Bible Study, please see the summerlife blog link to the left.