Covenant!

This last month Thomas, four other Company men, three other sisters and I had the privilege of making the covenant of the People of Praise together. I was invited to make the covenant earlier this year. I have spent the last five years underway in the People of Praise, discerning if this is how Jesus and I want to work in the world for the rest of my life. At the end of the discernment, as you can see, the Lord and I decided to throw our lot in with the People of Praise permanently! Glory!

As is probably the case with any life-long commitment, there are a lot of reasons for why I chose to make the covenant but I'll share just one here: Brothers.

The primary reason I came underway five years ago was brotherhood. I had spent the last four years trying to find it in Arizona and Oklahoma and I had not yet found a group of men who's greatest desire in life was to serve Jesus, become friends with Him, and bring others into that friendship. That's what I've spent the last five years doing with these men in the People of Praise. We've built houses together, gone door to door talking to people about Jesus together, we've prayed together, we've argued, we've asked forgiveness. Together we've left college, home and security behind to follow Jesus and most importantly we've helped each other fall in love with Him and taught each other how to work tirelessly for Him.

One paragraph is hardly sufficient to capture the robust friendship that has come about through the common life I've lived with these guys. I fear that trying to capture our life in a blog post would somehow sell it all short. These men and the People of Praise mean the world to me. The best way I have to describe my life and the brotherhood Jesus has given me is in His own words, "Come, and you will see."