Converge Young Adults (25 to 39)

"In The Meantime"
January/February 2012

How do you handle the filler space between the request and the answer?  What do you do when you’re waiting for God’s Big Plan to unfold, and there is a huge gap before it happens? 

What do you do after “the revelation”, you’re sure is from God, but your faith fingers are tapping waiting for the reality? Like, how do you handle the days, the weeks, even the months between that first glance across the room and the “I now pronounce you…”??   I was so sure …

What do u do when you’re holding to the promise, but the doubts  are bullying your faith  because it’s taking FOREVER for something to materialize?  How do you live “in the meantime”, without just existing, or going through the routine, but with genuine joy, hope and expectancy, even when the wait is arduous and long.   How do we handle the times when we wish we could see what God was DOING, when actually He is working on who we are becoming in the process? How do you do that?

For some of our early “relatives” , men and women whose bios we find in the pages of Genesis, a long life with many, many years was the norm for them, and that gave plenty of opportunity to figure out what “living in the meantime” really meant.   Some lived well, and made choices that were pretty astounding when you think about.  Like for example, Noah spent 100 years between his initial God-assignment and the actual fulfillment.  Tough years.  He spent his “meantime” being heckled for building some contraption that no one had ever seen or could figure out any possible use for, and trying to convince people other than his family to join him.  And no one did, yet he kept doing what he was supposed do.  That’s how he lived his meantime.

Are you in the middle of an “in the meantime”?  And how are you doing?  Join us at Converge this January/February as we look into the Scriptures to find answers on how to live well, between the dreaming and the coming true, in the meantime!

Fridays at 7:30 pm
APC Chapel