Our Church

I guess it's been quite awhile since I've last written here. Life has been really busy the past few weeks (or months). School has been going about 100 mph. We have just started the new semester and classes seem to be settling down. Basketball has been absolutely insane. Needless to say, coaching girls is quite different than coaching boys. But our season just ended and it ended on a positive note with a win (only lost four games all year).

Enough rambling. I wanted to take some time and write about our church. It has been our place to connect with other believers and regroup with God. We have found a strong refuge that we have come to enjoy more and more each week we attend.

We absolutely love it. Our Sunday School class consists of about 12 or so young couples just like us. They share many of the same burdens and joys that we have and they have been kind and welcoming to us. They have been very quick to recognize Kelly's sense of humor and quick wit and my knowledge and teaching ability. In fact I will be teaching in two weeks (on what I don't know yet!)

The church service itself is perfect for Kelly and I. Average attendance is about 700 and it is a mixture of contemporary and traditional styles of worship. We sing about three or four traditional hymns (Green Brook Baptist style!) and one or two contemporary songs. There is a good-sized choir which Kelly is about to join, and some instrumental opportunities for me.

But perhaps the best part about the church is our pastor, Scott Davis. He has been there for about ten years and knows the Bible thoroughly inside and out. When we joined the church he willingly spent about three hours with us in his office and didn't mind that we were there until the late hours of the night. He delivers sermons with authority and conviction and speaks to our hearts each and every week. Currently he is doing a series on Psalm 23 and is doing one verse a week. Now this might seem ridiculous but he finds a way to pull a thousand points out of a few words. He has an incredible expository mind.

Being at Pitts has made me think a lot about the purpose of church. I've come to understand how important the body of believers that you surround yourself with is. If you don't have that support and fellowship, your Christian walk could be very lonely and difficult. Maybe that's why there were twelve disciples and not one or two. Maybe that's why Paul made it a point to visit the believers in every town he arrived in. The Bible says we need only Jesus, but of course, so does everyone else.