Commissioning at Tulsa Bible Church

What an exciting day: Sunday, March 15, 2009. Today, we had Bob Lepine speak at church, who is the VP of Content at FamilyLife and co-host of FamilyLife Today. He delivered a message from Colossians 3 about the things that suck life out of your marriage and what puts life back into it. He used a biology analogy of red blood cells shaped like hearts. The things that take life out of those romantic blood cells are lying, slander, malice, and all self centeredness. The things that put life back into marriage are all selfless things that put the other person first. Christ is our example, giving His life for us.

After the message, we were privileged to be commissioned to serve with FamilyLife by our home church. Not only did we have the privilege of having our Elders pray over us and our family, but also, Bob Lepine was there to participate in our commissioning. We could never have orchestrated such an event; it was all God. We also found out that Bob was asked to come and speak over four months ago, long before we had any idea when we would be commissioned. God is awesome!