Retreat

What a weekend! The women's discipleship retreat went really well. Sometimes intense and often emotional. But God was present and He is good! I really want for all of you what we all experienced!

We left Friday afternoon, 39 women and one 2-month-0ld, including 9 leaders, and returned today at 5:15pm. When we left on Friday, we left with questions of "Am I significant? Am I secure? Am I accepted? Am I able? Am I .... (fill in the blank....)" but by Sunday afternoon, after going on this journey of vulnerability together, we were reminded that we need each other to remind us of who we are in Christ. All of our "Am I..." questions are answered absolutely in the "I AM" of Christ. Jesus answered all of the questions of our significance by finding us worthy enough to die for. He answered all of our questions of security by sealing that security with the cross. He answered our questions of acceptance by taking everything that made us unacceptable to the cross and placing it as far as the east is from the west. And He answered the question of am I able, by promising us that the same power raised Him from the dead and is available to us through the Holy Spirit!

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17