As most of you know, the journey over the past seven and half years has been anything but easy. Along the way I have tried to summarize some of the setbacks, roadblocks, and challenges here with you on Post Tenebras Lux. All I can say right now is that after experiencing the low valleys in ministry it gives you a much greater appreciation for the spiritual mountain peaks!
In writing this I am in no way suggesting that we have arrived as a church. Perish the thought! The moment you believe that lie is the moment you start to decline spiritually (both individually and corporately).
The Apostle Paul makes this point abundantly clear in Philippians 3:12-14; Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
The following note, from a seasoned pastor friend of mine (who use to minister in a nearby city), sums up this moment better than I can put it.
