I love how God can weave together a day. I definitely felt Him doing that yesterday. In the afternoon I had the chance to spend a significant amount of time with two of our campuses leadership teams. The Gathering703 team is one of my favorite groups to hang out with and I get the sense that God is getting ready to launch something so powerful at UMD.

As I met with each one of those teams, I had a real burden to remind all of us of how important individual people are to God, to us and to what we’re trying to accomplish. As The Gathering continues to grow and get more complicated, it’s easy to loose sight of that. We can become so focused on systems, numbers and processes that we can forget that God is in the business of rescuing and transforming individual lives – and that’s what we’re all about!

Being able to end my night doing baptisms for 13 Frontliners was the perfect way of solidifying that in my mind. Although it was freezing and it certainly wasn’t any horse trough, it was great to jump in the baptismal pool with those people. Each life marked by the Lord Christ. Each person transformed for the glory of our King. Each life so precious to God that He sent His Son to die for their sin that they could live forever in Him.

It was the perfect end to the day. It’ll be the thing I carry with me into this week.