{"id":7833,"date":"2024-07-31T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","slug":"if-god-is-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7833","title":{"rendered":"IF GOD IS IN IT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The more I think about it, the more excited I get about this retreat idea for my dissertation project.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you know that feeling you get when you sense that God is at work in some situation? It is a mix of anticipation, enthusiasm, and confidence which feels like it is coming from the outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Significant progress has been made in the past week since this lightbulb first lit up.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have now reserved a date for the retreat with the local Baptist campground: January 31st to February 2, 2025. It&#8217;s a great facility and just 15 minutes from the church.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having a date gives me the all important pressure of an actual deadline!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then today I came across a possible avenue for paying for the retreat &#8211; at least a 50\/50 match: the Center for Congregations. I think Sardinia Baptist will get behind this project and be willing to financially support it. And with a matching grant from the Center for Congregations, it feels like the Lord is encouraging me to dream bigger:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>I could invite youth from beyond our own congregation.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>I could have my friends Tim Price and Jamie Hudgins come and lead music and games.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>I could print top quality curriculum and offer resources that the teens could take home with them.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weird thing is that as much effort and thought as I feel inspired to put into this retreat, I sense it will become the first step towards something ongoing and bigger.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only if God is truly in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I think about it, the more excited I get about this retreat idea for my dissertation project. Do you know that feeling you get when you sense that God is at work in some situation? It is a mix of anticipation, enthusiasm, and confidence which feels like it is coming from the outside.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}