Battle in Kitchen Stadium... was it just a dream?

This morning I had a dream... I was looking through a window into our church service... what looked to be a friend, stood up in service and began to shake his hands and scream... he seemed out of control and wanted to worship God... he became "uncorked" and moved forward to the front of the sanctuary... but instead of walking he had to use a walker because he appeared to be crippled... I thought it strange because this friend of mine was not crippled(but religion spiritually crippled him). Than after he went forward and knelt down unashamed... other unknown old men began to get up out of their seats and kneel in the front of he sanctuary for the same thing my friend wanted. Until half the seats were empty! The feeling I got was tradition be damned... long live new wine!
What I realized after the dream was all the congregation was men... old men... traditionalists... in their 60's, 70's, and 80's... they were all becoming like Fuego Bob!... and I woke up.
I felt like I was supposed to intercede for our church and for my close friends who embrace the traditions of the 40's, 50's, 60's. 70's, 80's, and 90's... and to let go and move forward to what is happening in the present... (that is what the "old" men represented).
What is significant is that they were all men...
As I shared my dream with Nancy, she reminded me of the dream I had while I was up in Redding...
I had dreamed that David Hogan was advising me about my "mountains" in my life... which he promptly told me just to walk around them...
Then he shared with me my life... he said,"The difference between you and me is that I'm like the Iron Chef and my sons are the sous chefs, and you are watching us on TV... and another thing is that you are having women do what men are supposed to be doing...he continued to say that... "you need to get the strongest men and the strongest sons to do battle... Get out of your lounge chair and get into kitchen stadium and start cooking!"...
I never thought about it but it's true... when Greg came to cafe Fuego this past Saturday he thought it was a womens group meeting...
This morning I emailed to Evasia:
I got a neat dream this morning... I think I'm supposed to put together a men's seminar or something like that to empower them to replace what was lost during the war. |
Bob
Then Evasia wrote back:Hi Bob and Ellen, It looks like God is speaking to you guys the same thing. Weird.
Evasia,
I have been having thoughts about how to encourage the men to be active in leadership. One idea is to put together a one day men's conference.
Do you think the men would be open to that?
~Ellen
Whoa... that was weird... too coincidental not to be a God thing... so now I am thinking I want to do something with the men in our church and surrounding churches to break down the traditions and set them free.
Ellen volunteered to make the food... that's a great start!
I am going to ask some men that have told me that they were interested in starting something like that... It never interested me until this morning... maybe this is the hour for the men in our churches to rise up and take up our swords that we are responsible for.
Maybe it's time for me to get off the couch and into kitchen stadium to do battle... Ale Cuisine!
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