Hoppin Around :)

Okay I admit it. I am a small group hopper! AHHHH!!

I have been known to randomly drop in on home/small/community groups of churches which my friends attend. Really my intention is purely selfish in the fact that I am there to actually spend time with my friends. However, as usual, God always shows up and opens my eyes to yet another part of Himself.

This Wednesday night I went and crashed my friends JoAnna, Zack, Christy, and Ronnie's home group. My goal was to eat really good waffles and fellowship with my friends that I hadn't gotten to see in like a month. So I accomplished those two goals, which was awesome.

During the bible study time there were several reoccurring themes that came across. I think it is awesome how God can speak to us all in different ways about the same thing. Anyway... Most of what God had been showing everyone centered around being willing to step out in what He was leading us to do, even if it meant seemingly making a fool of ourselves in the process.

That lead to a discussion on how we tend to live our lives as though God is dependant on us instead of us being dependant on God. In our feeble brains we think that God can't accomplish His goals without us. In reality He is just allowing us to join Him in what He is doing. God is going to have his will done weather we choose to be a part of it or not.

That whole conversation lead to a thought from my friend Zack. He actually wrote a short post about it. He called it the Jesus vs. Jesus lite debate. Basically saying that all too often we want to take the good parts of our faith and cut out the parts we don't like. We want all the grace, love, and salvation but refuse to do the hard work of taking up our cross and following Jesus.

It really made me stop and think about how I live my life. Am I living my life taking all of who Jesus is or am I trying to "cut calories." You can take things away and add alternatives all you want but the lite version of anything is never as good as the original.