The latest adventure

I do sincerely wish I had a travel-oriented update for you all.  This blog's title gets to be a little ridiculous, I know, when you consider how little we've been able to travel in the last year.  We're also feeling the ache of not being able to untether ourselves and find wide open space.  It's an ongoing challenge to find balance, and contentedness, without a few days out of our fair city.

That being said, life is not without adventure, and the Lord blesses us with opportunities to learn things about ourselves every day.  The latest adventure is missional community leadership training at our church (The Austin Stone).  We're doing this mostly out of curiosity, a desire to know more about missional community, and to have some grounding going forward.  Two classes in, we are learning quite a bit - not least of which is what it means to have a literally Christ-centered, gospel-centered, community-focused life.

If you'd like to get an idea of what I'm talking about, I'd like to recommend the book we are reading with this class: Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community by Tim Chester and Steve Timmis.

If reading a whole new book about this idea is too much, then I recommend the Book of Acts.  The actions of the apostles and early church disciples are inspiring, and humbling.