September 8th, Empire Town Hall, the first official meeting of Clear Creek Neighborhood church.  How cool was it that there were actually people there!!  Nine of us counting Mary and I and Bill Senyard, the Lead Pastor from Lookout Mountain Community church.  We met from 6:30 pm to 8:30pm.  We went through the introductory material for the Sonship course.  It was great!!  People were really interested and engaged.
The first session dealt a lot with where we get our righteousness and discovered it comes to us entirely as a gift from our gracious heavenly Father and is received by faith  (Romans 3:22; Romans 10:4; II Cor. 5:21).
We also talked about how we often live like 'orphans' rather than 'children of God'.  A believer is living like an 'orphan' when he or she has in some way or another lost touch with the grace of God and His presence.  In isolation from the promises, the orphan has developed a small view of Christ and a small view of the gospel.  Sons and daughters, in contrast, have a large Christ and a large gospel.  The fact is we waffle between living like 'orphans' and 'children' of God many times a day.
It is exciting to see the interest and enthusiasm on the part of the people that were there.  We are anticipating really good things as God begins to really get hold of our heart!!