Moving From Burden to Blessing

Our staff tries to regularly "get out of the office" to get some work done... for multiple reasons. One of those is the opportunity to bump into normal folks and perhaps put our ear to the ground.

Today I had a wonderful 5 minute discussion with a business owner in Tioga who said, "I'm sorry to see that you guys are building a church there. Gainesville already has plenty of churches."

The details of our talk are inconsequential, really (to quote Dr. Evil).... suffice it to say that it was envisioning for me to pray (and then work towards) the day that Christ Community might be such a blessing to the entire community that this person would say, "I am glad you guys are in the neighborhood. What would we do without you?"