A new daily discipline?

I know I said that I was taking a break but I’m so excited I had to share!  Like many others, I too dream of “my own church.”  I have plenty of notes about what kind of church we’d be and the practices we’d have.  It’s my dream church.  I can’t imagine that I’d ever be picked by the UMC to start a new church because I envision mine in a broken community, most likely dealing with issues of poverty and it would take place in an old bar.  We would not have a “bar church” like the one supposedly in St. Louis where they serve beer and alcohol.  No ours would be an old bar transformed into a church–much like how God transforms broken and addicted people into hopefilled and whole people.  It would be a place where people used to come “looking for love in all the wrong places” but now come finding true love–the love of God.  (yes, i am a HUGE cheeseball!  and proud of it!)

Anyhow, that’s not what I wanted to write about.  So I will move on.  One of the things we (myself and a few friends who’ve joined in the conversation of the dream church) talked about was using the web.  Now this is not anything new, but I am very excited because at our church in Mound City I am now writing a “daily verse” email to all those who wish to recieve it and I am also posting it on our blog and facebook page.

Part of the reason this excites me is very selfish.  As I wrote it this morning, it was difficult and it felt like a new daily discipline to bring me closer to God.  Hopefully it will also bring me closer to the people in the church.  It’s also one of those things which I envisioned doing in the dream church.  It doesn’t feel so far away, it feels like a possiblity even if remote.