Our commitment is that we will seek the face of the Lord sufficiently enough to discern which of those potential risks are from the Lord and which are from our imaginations.  When we have clearly discerned the Lord is in a thing, we will be able to stand up with confidence before you as our congregation and declare, “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit….and to us…that we should do….”  We believe this to be the call of God on our lives for this season.  

To help us facilitate this concept I want to look at a passage from 1 John.  The Apostle John was one of Jesus’ original twelve followers and closest friends on the earth.  He was the last of the Twelve Apostles to die and is nearing the end of his life as he writes this letter to the community he had been pastoring for some time.