New Adventure

KI Class of 2015

“To me, Adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.” – Bear Grylls

It has been a little over a week since I moved to Branson, Missouri to start the Kanakuk Institute. For those that do not know what that is let me fill you in. The Kanakuk Institute is an 8-month discipleship program devoted to learning God’s Word better, how to study it and how to defend it while living in a community of 70 other believers who desire to seek the same truth. And I am beyond excited for this adventure the Lord has me on. I’m excited to learn how to better study His word, how to defend my faith, discipline, truth, and to live in this incredible community. If you would like to keep up with my new adventure make sure to check my blog out each week. I will be posting weekly and would love for y’all to join in with me.

Week one was super busy, but if there is one word that the Lord has placed on my heart from all that we did and learned; it would be community. But what does true community look like? I’m always brought back to the early church in Acts 2.

“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” “Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” [Acts 2:42,46-47]

Here at the Institute we get the unique opportunity to live like the early church did. In true community, where we all meet daily together to devote ourselves to the study of the Word, prayer, praising God together as the body of believers, eating all our meals together, and enjoying one another. This is a community most of us will probably not experience again, at least not in the way that we are literally living daily life together.  And my prayer would be that from this community the Lord would add daily to our numbers by those being saved. That we wouldn’t miss this opportunity to edify each other as we seek the same Savior. I pray that we will use this community to the glory of God to make disciples and to love others.  Because at the end of the day our purpose is the same, “to go and make disciples of all nations.” (Matthew 28:19a) I am thankful for this year and all that is to come.

However, we do live in a broken world and none of us, including myself, are perfect. There will be times when we don’t want to be held accountable, don’t want to do our campus job or to share a room anymore. So I ask that y’all join with me to pray against division, and for humility in us all.  Pray that instead of running from conflict we would use it as a tool to grow and edify one another.

So, this new adventure is here. I hope you’ll join with me! But like Bear Grylls said Adventure could be anywhere because it is just where you build community. I may be in a new place with new people, but I pray that we all are seeking to create relationships and adventure wherever the Lord has you in this season.

Welcome to my adventure!

Recap: Weekly post starting now, whoop!

Pray against division for the KI class of 2015

Create your own adventure this fall