Going Deeper...

Going Deeper…
We passed our half way point for our lecture phase last week. It gave us an excuse to look back on what God has been doing within each of us individually and within our group as a whole. It’s evident that we have grown deeper as a team. Each person is different, yet we come together to create a dynamic group. It will be exciting to see how God will use us and stretch us during our outreach phase.
John Murphy came from the snowboarders DTS in Denver to share with us about relationships. I enjoyed listening to him speak about being a son/daughter of God versus being a servant of God. Interesting note: John also told us that when you combine all the time we put into our lecture phase of our DTS it is equivalent to going to church every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening for 4.5 years.

Lecture phase creates the perfect setting for us to go deeper into head and heart matters. Each week we are challenged by the speaker’s different topics as well as with mediation passages, group devotionals, memory verses, intercession, and through our personal devotionals. We’re usually all ready for some time in the water after lectures are over. We went down to 110 feet this past weekend while we were completing our next level of certification in scuba diving. We also had the opportunity to go on a night dive a few days ago. Some of the fish looked like they were big enough to eat one of us, then I remind myself that under water things appear larger than they really are.
Jon Peterson is teaching on Bible study this week. We’ve been focusing on the book of John. He’s challenged us to read through the entire book of John once each day. We’ve read through it a couple times on our own, in different translations, from back to front, and once we read it as a group out loud. We have one more day left with Jon, and then he will spend next week teaching to the sailing DTS.

The other night my friend called me out to the end of the dock to look at a bunch of jellyfish that were glowing in the ocean. It’s those little things that God uses to remind me how blessed I am to be having this experience. I pray that in the next few days God gives you one of these little reminders of how He loves you and deeply desires to bless you!