Conclusions

1. Revolution Church is full of people who have their faith in one man - Jesus Christ. I am blown away and humbled by the response of so many disparate people. Those mature in their faith and those new to this whole Christ-follower thing have with one voice said their faith is in God. They are trusting Him to work all of this together for good. They are excited and anticipating a flood of His power and direction.

2. God is working in all of our lives to blast away what is not of Him. I am seeing God work in myself by gently saying now that you have vented, come see what I have to say. I am seeing God refocus and recenter people on Him and what He would say to them. I am seeing people being given an opportunity to put this faith in the lordship of Christ into action. What does it mean to follow Christ, except that we must follow His direction most especially when we want to run the other way!

3. What Satan meant for evil, God will use to further His kingdom! These words are not empty "Christianese" and platitudes. I hate that. We had the roof and walls blown off of Revolution Church, but the foundation stands. We are now standing, bruised and bloody, on that foundation. We will rebuild. We will build this church on the foundation and cornerstone of Jesus Christ. We look up and see, not a man, but a Savior who still bears the scars of His sacrifice. We see love that has no end and know he will not abandon us now. We will see God move in amazing ways now that the things that were not of Him are blown away. I have clearly seen the leadership of Revolution Church ready and excited and going straight to God to say, what would you have us do next? We stand ready to march.

4. Prayer changes things. Part of my own personal devastation is that for the last year, I have been praying almost daily for Dave - more than I have prayed for anything or anybody else. I have begged God to pour wisdom into him. I have asked God to reorient his heart towards his family. I have asked God to speak loudly and clearly to him and direct his path. I have given my personal animosity towards Dave to God and asked for a heart of love and honor towards him. I begged to be wrong in my own concerns. I did not want to be guilty of being "wise in my own estimation." (Rom. 12:10-16)

So it would seem that my prayers failed completely.

And until I wrote those words in point number 4, I believed that. But as I wrote those words of truth, knowing I personally didn't believe them, but yet still knowing they are truth, God said to me clearly, how do you think so many lives were changed at Revolution?

I know I was not the only one praying for him and for this church. God blessed and touched people despite Dave. God is not hampered by one man's sin and failure to yield to Him. Our God is a big God and even David Trotter's willful sinfulness could not hold Him back. Wow. God heard our prayers and blessed so many.

I have refrained from asking God to smite Dave, because prayer is a powerful force!

My next prayer is that God would bring me around to a point of grace. I'm not there yet. I'm not even ready to pray that yet. I'll get there.