Hello, I just thought i would add a little update on developments since my last post, about my student leadership, i had a meeting last night, with the head of the student team and an Elder from that church, to make clear some of the misunderstandings i have been having with regard to what they want from me, so here is the consensus.
My situation is like this, i go to to churches, one called trinity and one called heaton baptist, i have spent my time bouncing between the two for the past five years since i made my commitment to faith, which has been fine, i have made loads of friends at both churches, though i have more of background at trinity with it being my family church. However i am now in the situation that i need to decide where i am going to be firmly rooted within a community rather than spreading my self over two.
The basic gist of what was said is that a leader cannot be affective as such unless he/she is fully grounded and committed to one community, which i can totally understand, because it is about support and accountability, for me to be an affective leader i need the support of a community and be in relationships with those i can grow to trust and be accountable to, because this will help me to give the same support to those whom i may lead.
So basically i need to decide and discern what God wants for my life, do i root myself in the community of Trinity, where i sometimes feel i am a bit stuck in my comfort zone and not really moving forward as quickly as maybe i am meant to, or do i root myself into a relatively new community, form new relationships with a community where i feel i have grown more over the past five years. All plans for leadership and student work a side, i need to figure out where my next step in my journey is.
A piece of my heart is a both churches, which makes this decision all the harder to make, so if anyone has any words of wisdom, any advice you would like to give then please do share it. but at the end of the day, guess i need to follow Gods path, and be driven with what is on my heart to do.
Anyway just though I would catch you up on the events as they have unfolded.
Keep Praying, and God Bless.