Colorado Trip and Reformation Church

So it's only a short 15 hr drive from Phoenix to Denver. We were pretty dead Saturday night but managed to get over to Castle Rock to have Sunday worship at Reformation Church. Swanson's Church is at about 300 people now. They average 7 visiting families a week and it is hard for them, even with four elders and constantly exhorting the body to welcome in new ones, to make sure they meet these new families. We almost slipped through the cracks.

Kayla was a little put out. She now has in the middle of her notes from the book of Luke, notes from a different book of the Bible. That one is a Legacy inside joke.

Another very full day as after church we went and had dinner at Kevin's house with one other family from Reformation Church, the Bobb’s. Turns out this other family has done what I think I should do, sell and buy something outright with no debt. He sold his very nice house on a golf course and bought a fixer upper on two acres for 130k, well outside of town. He too re-positioned himself for the future. The land here stinks when it comes to growing “crops”, bad soil. Oh well.

Much fun visiting, talking about the state of the church, the family int. movement, abolishing seminaries and God's law. They want us to encourage all back home to come join them during their family camps in Sante Fe. They have some come up from California, Texas.

I shared how we are seeing the splintering of long, deep relationships as God keeps sharpening our vision and those from the mainstream just think we are now “too far” out there. Kevin wants us to make “them” aware of our prayer needs. God is knitting together those fellowships that are embracing all of His word. It's way more than just being family integrated churches. It's His word being acknowledged as “the standard” that will be the real glue and bonding agent I think. There will be many F.I.churches that will be unwilling to see all of God's word as applicable today, and that, will just be water and oil in a hurry I think.

I got Kevin worked up (who me?) about Otto Scott, “I use to love his writing, I have to get it out again!” and then he is bringing out a Rushdoony book to read a choice quote. I tried not to let on too much how I have gotten so much from the doonyman, when Kevin just says “Rushdoony was a genius.”

Kevin liked how we are using emails to get in some extra Iron sharpening.