Let me preface this post by saying I may be a little bit all over the place but it will all make sense in the end :) Now with that being said, a couple of months ago I moved away from the metro area and in doing so I had to kinda leave my church home. While I haven't found a new church in my new city, I do get a chance to go to my home church every now and then, however, as of lately thanks to a friend, when I can't get to church I normally check out messages on Buckhead Church's website ( http://www.buckheadchurch.org/messages ). Now I have listened to SEVERAL different messages and series on the website and there is one idea or theme that keeps coming back up. Now before I get to that idea/them let me go back and say this, I have been single (by choice) since April 2010, I've gone on a few dates during this period of singleness but none with the thoughts or intentions of pursuing a relationship.
Another stop before I get to the idea/theme that is reoccurring for me...I was initially not going to blog about this because it is a very personal and very intentional decision and I feel like putting it out there opens me up to challenges and difficulties but then I thought, I never know who might be helped or encouraged by me putting it out there so that's why I'm sharing...I also shared this because one thing I know about myself is I am a great "starter" and not so great of a "finisher" so by my sharing this with YOU (whoever you might be) I am making myself accountable to you.
Now to the "main idea" of this post...the idea/theme that kept coming up for me in several of the message that I viewed/listened to on the website was this challenge that Pastor Andy Stanley issued which was to look at "today's" date on a calender and go to a year from "today" and from this day to that DO NOT date. Basically, you are COMMITTING to a year of INTENTIONAL singleness. Like I said, I have been single since April of 2010, so we are talking about 1 year and 9 months for me, but, as of my birthday this year, I decided because this keeps coming up and because I know there is so much more for me, maybe committing to this year isn't such a bad idea at all.
Some of the messages that I listened to on the website were:
http://buckheadchurch.org/messages/the-new-rules-for-love-sex-and-dating ALL PARTS
http://www.buckheadchurch.org/messages/twisted Part 4 Category of One
http://buckheadchurch.org/messages/guardrails Part 3 Flee baby flee
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