Radical Experiment

Last year, I taught from David Platt's book, Radical. 3 times. In it, David challenges the readers to take part in a Radical Experiment.  For one year, we are asked to read through the entire Bible, pray for the entire World,  commit to a small group of like-minded believers, spend 2% of the year ministering in another context, and give specifically and sacrificially to some Kingdom work.

You would think after teaching it 3 times, I would be all in. However, in all honesty, I hesitated making the commitment because commitments require, well...commitment! And, commitments mean consistency and sacrifice and hard work. Not that I am opposed to these things, mind you, but my life is already full of them and it seemed to me that I might just get myself "over-committed". But as the Lord prompted me and I evaluated all the other things that pull on my mind and heart and schedule, I realized I could let other things go, but this was, after all, what I am all about.

Soooo, Carl and I decided to take the plunge last December by sending out a request to a bunch of people we thought might be interested in joining us in our home on Sunday nights for a Radical Experiment Bible Study.  In 2012, we are reading the Bible through chronologically during the week and coming together to discuss it on Sunday.  We also spend a portion of the evening praying  for specific countries of the world as a part of the experiment. Our plan is to add some outreach times and targeted giving as well.

Guess what? I am loving it.  The people God has brought into our home each week are ministering the socks off of both me and Carl. So much wisdom, insight, and laughter. Yes, we missed the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards and I feel the need to keep the house a little cleaner on the weekends, but it is so worth the investment.

Cookie lessons...

Have you ever made a batch of chocolate chip cookies forgetting to add a tiny bit of salt? It seems like such a small thing compared to the rest of the ingredients.  But a pinch of salt brings out the flavor of the cookie.  It tastes even sweeter somehow.

My daughter, Krisi, and I must have been hungry when we were brainstorming a name for this blog, but sweet and salty made sense.  I am in ministry with Priority Associates of Cru Global (Campus Crusade for Christ).  I work as a teacher/mentor/Christian life coach. I love it. I get to spend my time sharing the truth, the "sweetness" of God's word with women who are hungry for it.

And, as a Christ follower, I have been called to be the salt of the earth. In other words, I have the opportunity and privilege of enhancing the truth of God's Word by living it out, day by day.  When I teach what God's Word has to say about prayer, the Spirit-filled life, or rejoicing in suffering, for instance, I add flavor to that truth when others observe it demonstrated in my life.

Sweet and Salty. A pretty good summary of my ministry with Priority Associates. And a pretty good summary of what I want to be recording here in the days ahead; sometimes, how God is instructing me through His Word; sometimes how He is empowering me to live it out.