God has been teaching Amber and I a great deal over the past year since we walked away from our dream of a thriving church plant in Ohio. We succesfully merged Catalyst with Western Reserve Church.
Chuck Swindoll once said, "When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and CRUSHES him." The key is to embrace the crushing.
So true.
We are now in a season of blessing for our family and our ministry. And we do not take it for granted having endured many seasons of heartache.
My trip to Unleash a few weeks back was truly redemptive. Culminating in Perry's kind words, God unmistakably whispered to my soul that this journey has been for a reason bigger than we can imagine. The opening words of 1 Peter ring true.
All this to say, my friend Ben Arment for the first time shares our story today on his blog. Sometime soon I'll take time here to unpack in greater detail how God has been leading and shaping us for this moment.
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