From Southern Baptist Deacon and lay leader to where I am at now.

One of the things that I wanted to do with this blog is to talk about what has led me from being a Deacon, Bible study & lay ministry leader in a Southern Baptist Church to where I am at now.  Also, talk about where I am at now and my path from here.  I am not writing this to try and sell people on following the same path, because that would be wrong on my part.  I believe that God will lead you to where He wants you and that may not be the same path as me.  I do feel the need in my heart to write down my journey and I hope that will help others as they read it.  Just writing it down will help me.

I will start by saying that it has always bothered me that the people who seem to need God and the church the most were usually pushed out or at least felt like they were pushed out of the church.  A few years ago I  went forward in a service and surrender my life to ministering to those who were pushed out.  My calling was not the end result of where I am now as I have changed a lot since then, but it was a step to where I am now.

So in the next few posts I hope to write about what caused me to go from being Deacon inside to ministering outside, and from ministering outside to where I am now, and to write about things that are happening now.  Again, I am writing about my journey and I am not belittling anyone else's journey or beliefs.  I do not expect and I do not want to be surrounded by carbon copies of me as that would be just wrong and the world would not be a lovely place to repeat a cliche.  I promise that this will be different from any song and dance show that I used to give inside the congregational walls.  I want to be real and authentic, not wearing any false masks, so you can see the real me.