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Mountain View Church had a special speaker on Sunday, Dr. Keith Richards.  Keith is a professor at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga in the area of Business and Marketing.  It was great to see and feel the unfolding development of Mountain View Church.  Keith really hit the ball out of the park with his message titled:  Mission not Tradition.  I’m still praying over many of the points that Keith made!

One of the things that really got me thinking was the way the Lord has brought these people together to Mountain View who are open to a new adventure, pursuing new relationships, and inspired by a vision to make a significant impact upon the Chattanooga area.  There is a dawning realization that we are giving ourselves to a mission that matters and not simply sustaining a tradition that is quickly becoming incidental to some and irrelevant to most!

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We had an awesome time with those who are involved in Mountain View Church.  Julina and I were reflecting on our previous experience in church planting in Memphis and comparing the work in Chattanooga.  I know comparisons can get very tricky.  I enjoyed our time in Memphis and have some wonderful relationships that continue to this day.  Having said that I really think we are farther down the road in our Chattanooga church.

Our people are coming together, there was an energy in the room that fueled my own faith and I believe that we are poised for great ministry in the future.

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Thomas Jefferson said, “I am more interested in the dreams of the future than the history of the past”.

I’m so excited about the vision and the people that have called Mountain View Church home.  I’m blown away by the quality of the people that have made Mountain View Church home.  They continue to inspire my faith and help me to imagine the future.  The “dreams of the future” are always held with an open hand.  They compel us to give up good things in order to embrace the best things.  Our dreams force us also to live beyond what we can do in order to thoroughly embrace what God wants to do through us. 

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