Challenges of the Small Town

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Permalink Reply by Anne Jankowski on May 2, 2012 at 1:26pm

Joshua, you and your wife sound like my husband and I. We had been part of a house church some 12 years ago but after we moved to the country, we found ourselves back into an IC and mostly because of our kids.  

We didn't go seeking but it was amazing how God used a man that we hadn't seen in 19 years who gave us the book "Reamagining Church.  He said his pastor gave it to him and that was it.  I was amazed to find how much God had been revealing to us over that last 15 years that was opposite of what the churches preach today.  We decided to read the rest of FV books, I knew it was time to leave the IC. It has been 2 1/2 years now and we are growing more than before and we too are still in the wilderness and learning and unlearning much.  Many of our christian friends also see the problems in the church but say there is nothing you can do to change it and are not willing to make the change.

I have home schooled my for 9 years, not to keep them from the world but to allow what God wanted to develop in them to take place. It was my children who saw the transition from middle school to high school groups who were actively engaging in worldly attitudes, i.e. clicks, class and plain old games that as home schoolers they were immune to.  I never thought I would have to leave the church so my children would not pick up an outward experience vs. and inward life change.  Today, my daughter is so on fire for Christ and plays various instruments for a group of teens that meet weekly.  My son is in God's hands.

We also believe that God will assemble other like minded Christians to us. We aren't looking for them, they just seem to come in and out of our circles of other acquaintances.  I look at it this way, we are part of a reformation that was started by Luther but also confused by his own upbringing in church practices.  I figure if Luther was able to change the views of many  Catholic believers, God can use anyone willing to march to His heart beat.

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