Doing Life Together
"Doing Life Together" is code for church. Church planters love this phrase - it signifies that something different is happening that is missing from inherited churches. That may or may not be true. However, church was real on Sunday and it was not - but yet it was. Let me explain.
I attended a "Transition Celebration" for The Next Door - a ministry that invests in the lives of women who have paid their debt to society, but need help moving through the next door of their lives. Five women "graduated" from the program and are moving through the door for life's next phase - working hard, living independently, and staying clean. That equals changed lives and I was moved not only with emotion, but with spiritual pride that I was seeing the results of "doing life together." It wasn't the church as we usually identify it - but it was more church than most have ever seen in a lifetime!
I have a great respect and admiration for all the leaders at The Next Door - that includes my wife. She doesn't work directly with the women, but she works diligently with others to keep the organizational doors open and the elevators running smoothly. Thanks to all the ladies - and thank you, God, for allowing The Next Door to "do life together" - I know it brought a tear to your eyes, too.
