so im sitting down in south florida, i think all of you know i moved down here except maybe chin. so yeah im sitting down here in the coffee shop that i work in, and i will be coaching my first soccer game later today. i dont know if we will have enough players or not, but i am at least hopeful that we will. the reason im writing in here today is two fold, primarily i think that a college reading level is far to high for any blog i am a contributor to, and secondarily i am on the verge of making a big decision. tertiarily (i dont know if that is a word) i havent written in awhile so i feel a little guilty about that. so the big decision...well as i was moving down to so fla, i get this phone call from a church up in atlanta and they want me to come and be their high school youth pastor. the church is a really cool, and i think that id be into the ministry there, and just the vision of the church as a whole, but the timing is just so weird. i really dont know what to make of it, i dont know whether to think of course i wont do it, i just made a decision, or to think wow God you are moving in at the last minute to take me to what you want me to do. part of me also wonders if im just hiding down here in south florida, if im just doing things that wont challenge me, just because i dont want to have to engage in life in general...
so i think i need to tell this church today if i want them to fly me up there to check it out, and the salary at this church is rather robust, and thats fairly appealing to me, because as it stands down here, im not sure im gonna make it financially... i guess ultimately im writing this in hopes that doing so will help me make a decision about exploring this opportunity or not, ive gotten so much mixed advice that its really too much to even write about, but it is kinda driving me crazy...as soon as i find some place that i think i can engage in, and a city that i can love, and watch God heal with the gospel, as soon as i get there something comes up that makes me question it...
i dont love this decisionmaking phase of life... but i do have a sneaking feeling that peace is just around the bend...
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yeah, that sucks. god might want you to go, but at the same time i don't think he would have you abandon previously made commitments. unless of course you leaving won't hurt things (ie, leaving your team without a coach). i'll be praying
wow, that's a pretty crazy situation. the toughest decisions are usually the ones where neither one is necessarily wrong. so you look at the one choice, and you're like - maybe God is opening a door for me in Atlanta or maybe i'm just being tempted to abandon a commitment. then you look the other direction and think - God may have put me here to do great things but you sound like it might also be settling into something comfortable that doesn't challenge you. so basically either one could be a door God is opening or a stumbling block put in your way. i'll definitely be praying for that decision.
i'm not sure if this is an open site for me to comment on (this is bobby, by the way, not sure how it will come up on comments), but tim mentioned to me a bit back and then i saw it on josh's facebook, so i had to visit. it's like 4 of my favorite people in one place. how could i not check it out.
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