Radical by David Platt
This book ticks me off. In a sarcastic kind of way. He makes Jesus seem so real and true, who wouldn't give up their life to follow Him? Really give up their life.
Our small group is reading this book and we are on the last chapter which of course, has lots of application. In it he suggests taking VBS out of the church and putting it in individual neighborhoods. Essentially taking Jesus to the world instead of expecting the world to show up on the church's doorstep asking about Jesus. Genius. Why didn't I think of that? And apparently there have been others that have already thought this because they have VBS curriculum's set up for backyards.
After trying to ignore God on this for a couple of days I was convicted that this was my next project. So, here we go. Trying to organize a small VBS in record time and trying to recruit volunteers. God is good, and bigger than my small VBS. Thank goodness. At the same time I was struggling if I should pursue this Trent was reading the book Good Call by Jace Robertson. Trent said after reading that book you will also be convicted that you should talking about Jesus to everyone and bringing Him to your neighborhood. This is our calling as Christians. No other options.
So, continue to pray that this project can be fleshed out in record time. By God's good grace (this was my affirmation that I should do this) our church had the exact curriculum I had found online to do this VBS. I called our children's pastor and he said, of course, he had something that would fit. I guess he tried to get people to use it last summer and no one really took the bait and ran with it.
Well, I'm running. Hopefully in the right direction.
