A Continuous Fire That Started On A Hill

I titled this blog, "A Continuous Fire That Started On A Hill". For me that's the feeling when you go to a conference or maybe a summer camp and you get really jazzed at what happened at that certain event. You are pumped! Now for all of us who have been in the Christian scene for a couple of years know this feeling. I can recall when I would go to summer camp when I was a wee lad. Old Oak Ranch is where I would go. And I remember when we would go and hear all these people speak and we would get pumped. And they would even warn us by saying things like, "when you get off the mountain, it will be hard..." and, "don't let the fire go out...".

Now we just got done with our Brethren District Conference. And for most of us, those ol' camp feeling come back. We get pumped! We had some really good people speak and we even had some AMEN shouts. It was really a good time. We talked about the future of the Brethren Church and talked about the new day. I love this stuff!!! Tonight Rickey was talking about if you can dream and not put God in a box, then God will respond. Super Size God. Again I love this stuff. I love to dream. I love to move foward! Now I know that I sit in the minority in this thinking, which is fine. But I feel that things are going to be different this time around. See before I felt like people were holding on to the past. Like Rickey said. But with the Brethren Church new mission, A New Day, I feel like this is a huge step foward. We need to engage and transform the people around us. It was so good.

One side note. I have never meet more sincere and honestly real followers of Christ. I've been around the christian block for...well my whole life. I think that a lot of churchs are getting stuck in some kind of bog. Again what I mentiond above. Unchanging. I feel so honored that to be apart of such a open minded body of christ. And the people who run the show in the background are so cool.

Now back to the original post. So, here we are. The conference is over and people are pumped. Aside from some of the meida fallouts. We are ready to move foward. How do we keep the fire blazing? How do we stay on the hill? It's one of those things that needs to on our minds at all time. We need to dream! And not small dreams. SUPER SIZE DREAMS. We get stuck with the mundaine and loss that connection thru all the hussel and bussel.

We need that continuous fire.

-Jesse