This past Sunday marked the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. Instead of showing up at Journey for our usual Sunday morning service, we drove out to Clayton and hung out in a bowling alley with over 100 other adults who have said yes to help plant Generation Church in that area. I never thought I would leave Journey. It's been our home for the last eight years. We've had lots of sweet memories from serving with the students, to learning to be better financial stewards, to getting married, to leading a small group, to having our first child. We've seen family members baptized and traveled to Uganda with a missions team. Journey has been our family, our security, our normal.

But there comes a time when God calls us to step away from what we know and are comfortable with to become uncomfortable and go forward into the unknown for the sake of His name. He calls us to step out in faith and follow Him wherever He may lead, and for us, this is Him calling us out. We're giving up what we have known and saying yes to something far beyond ourselves. This doesn't make us heroes or saints. It doesn't make us better than others. This is not about us. It's about Jesus and only Jesus and knowing Him and making Him known. We are the privileged ones to be invited by God to be the hands and feet of Jesus. If we said no, God would have found other people to do His work. He doesn't need us to accomplish anything. But He invites us to, and that's something we knew we couldn't miss out on. It might not all make sense to you or even to us. However, it makes total sense to follow our God because we believe He is sovereign and perfect and faithful and good and we have been given the opportunity to love others on His behalf. And if one person comes to know Jesus because of this, then it will all be worth it.