Well, a good day at the Convention. Being on the Teller Committee this year, I have committed to not miss a single thing. Seating in my special section with Southern Baptists' finest and their families that feel obligated to be there, I took in all the sights and sounds of all of our Baptist Institutions. There are three emphases that I believe I can narrow it down to: planting churches, becoming more missional, and giving more to the Cooperative Program. The CP is continuing to drop and that continues to effect the size of our entities and institutions. You don't hear about that in the report that they give but you do when you listen to questions from the floor and read the reports. It is interesting and challenging days.
No night session so we went to the Arizona Diamondbacks game last night. They played the SF Giants. Daddy got the girls the cheapest seats in the house. Bleacher seats over the left field wall. They don't make baseball games like they did 20 years ago. There is so much going on and so many different types of food and mid-inning entertainment, even the drunks don't show out anymore. Fun experience. Parra is the left fielder for the Diamondbacks. He always throws the ball that he practices with to the crowd- every inning. Therefore Ab, me, and curly q would go to fence and look like a poor beggar hungry for a baseball but excited about the...ugh...Diamondbacks?...yea...Diamondbacks, yea, the Snakes. Well it did not work until the 8th inning when we turned around dejected and some dude that had already caught one gave it to Millie. Gave a baseball! There are Christians in the stands! We will build the shrine for the baseball when we get home. Some guy gave Abby a t-shirt that some scantly clad girl was throwing. So get this-- my girls went to their first pro baseball game, saw the World Champions (I think the Giants are) and the 2nd place team play down to the wire (but we left in the 8th) and got a thrown t-shirt and a baseball and their hero daddy caught neither. Somewhat miraculous, huh? A fun evening.
Oh, what we have when we have Jesus- it is amazing. Paul talks about the hope of glory to the church in Colosse. What is the hope of glory? It is Christ in you. Mining out the riches of the glory of this mysterious thing-Christ in us- ought to be what marks our life, molds our ministry, and makes our day.
To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27 Do you know what you have when you have Jesus? Spend the day thinking it out, praying it out and living it out.
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