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f tonymyles at 12 12 am 0 comments sep 16 2022 church and church a friend of mine recently posted something on facebook that caught my eye this is someone who was a part of the church i used to serve as lead pastor and for a moment i thought it was a description of something happening in this person s life now or perhaps a throw back to the past here s the post in its entirety the pastor says they sit front and center the gay boys sometimes they hold hands and some folks have said he should address the issue but the pastor tells me he doesn t know what to say and then there s the man who sneaks in the back door fresh off the street after the service starts and leaves before alter call the people sitting close complain about how bad he smells of beer and smoke and sweat but the pastor tells me he doesn t know what to say and then there s the young mama who wears dirty skin and lets her four children come in and eat all the donuts and drink all the watered down juice some church staff say they eat like little pigs like they haven t eaten in weeks while the mama just stands there and lets them and the elders say something must be done and said but the pastor tells me he doesn t know what to say and there s the whore sitting among the faithful and everybody knows her she sits with a painted up face cheap perfume and a broken heart and those who sit close well they all treat her for what they think she is and at the last staff meeting her name came up something must be done about her but the pastor tells me he doesn t know what to say the pastor is a good man holy and just and he wants to do the right and loving thing and he wants to look like jesus and he asks me if i have any thoughts on anything he could say yes sweet pastor i do start with this and say it louder than any other words welcome to church this is a place of love and hope and safety and forgiveness we will be food for the hungry living water for the thirsty we are so glad you are here you are invited you are loved come on in we ve been waiting on you welcome here we are the church say that to the called and to the called out to the leaders and the greeters to the dirty and the clean we are all the same we are may we blow the dust of religion out of our souls and choose affection instead may our words and actions and reactions be a sanctuary for all jesus broke many laws man s law not god s law to love so jesus be our voice be the only words we should ever speak copied from a friend then i realized ah this is one of those copy and paste it posts still i felt compelled to reply so i did this stopped me for a moment i honestly had a wait what flashback because during a season at connection there was a gay couple who came every week and sat in the center of the front row only we didn t ignore them but had some amazing conversations for months they later moved to another state and there was an scented man who came in after spending time on the street he eventually found a church family in us and stepped into the mission i started to realize this wasn t a flashback though as we never did sunday donuts and juice but during vbs we did have kids who came in needing food and worn out moms who didn t know where to find it so we gave them an abundance of the sugary snacks and later provided bags of food from the food pantry as far as who the local whore was i m not sure so let s just say it symbolically was any of us or all of us or just me and we all needed to be seen for who we actually are versus what the broad stroke of chit chat or quick summaries said we were i believe the same is true of church we will find what we are looking for if we re looking to find reasons why it falls short we will find those reasons if we re looking to find reasons why jesus said it we are worth giving his life for we will find those reasons if we re looking for reasons to not attend one regularly we will find those reasons if we re looking for reasons to take the plank out of our own eyes and grab hold of jesus who he loves us as we are and walks us into transformation while holding us along the way we will find those reasons oh may we determine what it is we re looking for or else we will find what we presume we re looking for let us honor the true bride of her husband because she is the wife of so great a lord and what shall i say how great is that husband and of singular rank that he discovered a prostitute and made her a virgin because she should not deny that she was a prostitute lest she forget the mercy of her liberator how can it be said that she was not a prostitute when she fornicated with demons and idols fornication was in the heart of everyone a few have fornicated in the flesh but everyone has fornicated in his heart and he came and made her a virgin he made the church a virgin augustine bethechurch love as christ loved the church when he gave himself up for her ephesians 5 25 shared out of the life of tonymyles at 2 53 pm 0 comments sep 29 2021 this is the dream as i write this it has officially turned midnight which means it s september 29 2021 that s my birthday if you know when i was born you know this is a significant birthday numerically i ve always enjoyed being somewhat elusive about telling people my age i just did it again keep in mind i have no issue with my age nor have i ever rather i find that others do perhaps because i ve been a pastor for a long while and there have been times when i ve shared my age and the reaction was wow you re way too young to know anything other times when i ve shared my age the opposite response came out with wow you re a lot older than i thought and suddenly i m not sure if i can relate to you whatever i m 50 years old today yep i wrote it it s there in black and white so what deal with it maybe i shouldn t and instead brace myself for some cheesy barrage of people who want to harass me with all the exhausting over the hill napkins and party horns i m sure if that s waiting for me the people behind it love me and assume i d enjoy the ribbing the truth is i m excited to be 50 not in a sassy woo hoo look at me don t be hatin on me rally cry my enthusiasm for being 50 isn t artificial adrenaline nor a shield i wield out loud to cover some insecurity underneath i m 50 which means i m on the front end of a prime time in my life in these next years i ll watch my boys continue to emerge into adulthood they re already godly men whom i wish i could grow up and become joshua loves the lord and decided through a rather challenging year to grab hold of jesus instead of caving into his weariness if he was a tree and you could look inside at the rings that have been formed this year would be a definitive circle of the storms he weathered and the rooted internal joy in christ he claimed i ve watched him grow into an understanding of himself and his calling to ministry that i can t believe i get to get a front row seat to he s the real deal yet somehow he s also peter pan and at the same time dr seuss and maybe joshua from the bible too or maybe he s just joshua epic daniel likewise is solid with god caring about others and has a compass that always points to true north he does this not just out of morality but out of trust faith and surrender i ve likewise seen him be faithful during a tough year of work and as he just recently begin to intern at our church in problem solving and projects he could be a unique pastor lawyer or a financial advisor or an it guy or apologist or the list is endless i m pretty sure he s going to change the world whatever he goes with maybe through one of those roles or maybe something else i ve watched him go all in every day on whatever it is he s doing and it s breathtaking he tenderly calls me out so i can boldly live upward wow johanna is both a girl of god and a tween of god and a woman of god she serves and gives then gives and serves she s exploding with creativity and wants to use it to worship the lord be it in art singing dance or otherwise she says yes to many great things but also knows how to turn other things down anytime i ask her for a favor she s eager to do it and please please lord let her affection for stuffed animals unicorns and all things people forever remain i m in awe of this little lady whose heart and faith are huge and whose spontanenous house dance party moves rival my own wonder full katie is still surprising me with her stretchy heart that loves me and loves me again and loves me again she digs deep confesses her emotions reaches for truth blesses us daily and finds a space in the church to place her hand and push it forward whether or not anyone sees it she radically loves her neighbors she takes on new challenges she prays and inspires and when it s all messy it s gloriously messy i m so so thankful for her bride so what do i have to complain out sure i could make a list i know i ve had many moments where i had to right now i m choosing not to and even when i have to again i hope i will say this this is the dream lord you re here with me wherever you are is home sure i d like some more money today and retirement funding for later i d like to have some different body parts or a faster metabolism it d be great if i wasn t misunderstood in that direction or overlooked in the other direction maybe i could pout if i really want to i don t want to this is the dream i may not be at the end of the dream but i m right in the middle of it i ll trust that what i can t yet see will come in due time meanwhile i ll take in what i can see and thank the lord for it both the aches and the awesome the problems and the praise the breakdowns and the breakthroughs i m reminded of joseph who had dreams from god about how one day something amazing would happen in his life then he was rejected by his family sold into slavery tempted to sin falsely accused when he did the right thing imprisoned and forgotten only at the end of his life did the final moment of the dream come true but he was in the steps and stages of the dream that whole time so i will praise the lord regardless of the stage of the dream i am even if it some days feels like a nightmare this is the dream today is my birthday i will spend it with my loved ones who love me where are you at when you read this take a look around and take it in you are also in the middle of what god is creating that has yet to be fully revealed say it with me this is the dream trust me i m 50 shared out of the life of tonymyles at 1 47 am 0 comments labels a day in the life of me sep 11 2021 everything changed everything changed i was about 45 minutes from home taking the day of september 11 2001 to study and spend time with god as i heard slices of news on the radio i made my way to a random best buy on dozens and dozens of tvs i stood among many strangers as the attacks happened i knew i needed to go home to be with my wife and newborn son everything changed in the days that followed it was the only thing on tv stories we were interested before now seemed stupid in comparison airlines shut down unifying bewilderment created unifying friendships churches were full for multiple weeks as people wondered questions out loud they d stuffed down for years and returned to their roots everything changed then time passed travel took on new restrictions the economy was different we weren t sure if we should root for war or against it but knew that soldiers and front line workers were to be our heroes many of us became an expert in our own eyes and returned back to sillier stories social media launched that amplified it all everything changed it s been years since then so many years in fact that we re more aware of the effects of 9 11 to such a degree that the 20 year anniversary sort of snuck up on many of us be honest we ve been slugging away at being right so long that it s been a while since we ve gotten right with ourselves with each other and with god we don t know when the next global something will happen nor if the global somethings we re currently in will get better or worse we just know that our side of things can never never never never never never never appear to be wrong so we ve trained ourselves to argue well and point fingers with longer endurance than our alleged opponents everything changed centuries earlier a man unlike any other man walked the earth it happened in an era of chaos in the known world as one group tried to bully another group and countless people felt overlooked right then and there in the fullness of time this man lived among us yet was different than all of us he taught cared healed corrected reset guided showed us holiness and grace simultaneously and predicted his death and resurrection and then both happened even as the world and the world of everyone in it was collapsing he stayed on a cross to show us another way the impact of that man jesus christ still can impact you today and perhaps if you genuinely invite him in today as your savior and lord leader then tomorrow you can genuinely claim something new and lasting in a world full of destructive ideas words and actions perhaps if you humble yourself now into him you can every day that follows look in the mirror and remember it owning everything changed if that s a step you re open to take here s a next step to that big step that changes every step https myrc church yes shared out of the life of tonymyles at 1 49 pm 0 comments labels 9 11 life change mar 20 2019 concern about worry be concerned it s healthy concern is clarifying concern is inquisitive concern reminds you of what you can spend time on and that guides you so be concerned but don t worry it s unhealthy worry is concern gone bad worry is concern with mold worry reminds you of what you can t spend time on and that suffocates you therefore i tell you do not worry about your life what you will eat or drink or about your body what you will wear is not life more than food and the body more than clothes look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or store away in barns and yet your heavenly father feeds them are you not much more valuable than they can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life jesus matthew 6 22 27 shared out of the life of tonymyles at 1 33 am 0 comments oct 3 2018 paradoxes of relationships paradoxes of relationships 1 time quality 2 how i see us how you see us 3 more commitment more belonging and 4 language thoughts 5 pursuing self wanting more than self 6 clarity questions the simplicity of community is complex shared out of the life of tonymyles at 11 46 am 0 comments aug 1 2018 one year later once upon a time i lived in ohio i was a senior pastor i drove a small aqua car i did other things too i led regional serving days that brought churches together i wrote a weekly newspaper column that impacted our region for jesus i enjoyed the fine menu at smoothie king i d somehow also developed friendships with amazing people from all walks of life from the average joe or 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