Church Dilemma

Don't let my title fool you, this was a good dilemma! From the start of our living in Dubuque, we were torn as to which church to attend. I had gone to the one church while I was at Emmaus and it had become a family to me. On the other hand, Amy had attended another church with her family for a number of years as well. We loved both churches; the teaching, the people, etc. We had decided to attend both for a while. Anyway . . . to make a long story short, I was meeting with the elders of the church we we attending the most, Great Adventure (the one I had gone to at college), about being sent out from them as missionaries to Japan. This has been the desire on my heart for a while. In the course of the conversation in which ideas and thoughts of mine were bounced off them and I received good encouragement, advice and council in return, one thing surfaced above the others. They suggested, as Amy and I had also concluded, that we devote ourselves more fully to one church, so that we could invest more in them and they in us. Throughout the next week, God began to show me that the church He wanted us to devote more fully to was Grandview Heights Baptist Church, the one that Amy and her parents had been attending. This totally took me by surprise! I was not even looking for this option. It just goes to show yet once again that God has His sovereign plan and we need to bend ours to fit His! So, we spent our last Sunday at Great Adventure Church in which they sort of sent us off with their blessing to invest in Grandview church. It was such a blessing for Amy and I too see how Great Adventure handled it all. The elders and others were naturally disappointed, but at the same time they were supporting us and excited for us, excited to see how God would use this and use us! It also spoke well for the church, that they are not focused on themselves and on numbers but on what God wants and on the spiritual health of the members of Christ's Body!