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I admit that I rarely read the introduction to any book. But now I have a better appreciation for the introduction as I write a preamble to my own book.

You need to have an understanding of where I’m coming from and where I’m going before you can appreciate the message God has placed on my heart.

Our God is a God of relationship, and I see this intro as establishing a relationship between me and each reader before we engage in intimate conversations about truly knowing God and His heart, and how that relates to the mission of His people.

It is with great honor that I write to you. I still chuckle when I think of how God uses me and my weaknesses for the good of God’s kingdom. This book is to glorify Him.

I stand in awe of God’s Word and the plans for us revealed through the Bible. God’s Word and plans are amazing literary creations that have so many underlying themes and mysteries that I must remain careful to not present what has been revealed to me as having any authority over our Christian experience. I respectfully submit that this is God’s story, yet my story within the context of the covenant relationship between God and me. It is how God connected and revealed truths to me about His nature, the scriptures and our mission while on earth through my relationship with Him while serving in a soup kitchen.

After a grace-filled period of time, I came to understand these truths and was given a desire to share them with others. May we all search out to experience God in radically new-old ways, however and wherever it is that God will choose to lead us to connect our modern faith walk with these scriptural truths.

God promises that if we stop limiting Him by requiring Him to meet us where we are, and instead we go and seek Him, that we will find Him!

In Deuteronomy 4:29, Moses reminds us to not make idols of any kind (which would include our self-centered nature to have God meet us where we are), “if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

When you decide to go and seek Him, He may lead you to your very own soup kitchen to serve and experience the applicability and meaningfulness of these scriptures in your life. Or He may choose to lead you to serve in a school as a mentor or in a court room as a guardian ad litem for a child, doing weekly laundry for the homeless, or packing sack lunches for the hungry.

Who knows where He will lead you to find Him when you respond to the promises and defining moments found in the scriptures? May these shared Christian moments allow you to see the message God placed upon my heart that allows you to reconnect with God and the missions set before His people in a radically new-old way.