Enoch’s Walk

I am a follower of Christ. I was raised in a conservative evangelical fundamentalist home where I was taught all that was needed to live a totally fulfilled and happy life…or so I thought! Actually I was happy, content and comfortable in that life for 39 years. As I approached that 40th year I started to question if this was all that life had for me. I have a loving wife, 3 great boys and enjoyed the comfortable place I maintained in my local church. I guess for many this may sound like unjustified grumbling and complaining. Did I not know how well off I had it? That thought went through my mind often as well, but God was convicting me about the comfort and complacency that I had evidenced. As I looked around my local church, I had a hard time differentiating it from a social club. While the great commission begs us to go into all the world, we were content to have outsiders come to the “Gospel Service” although we rarely made the invitation outside the church walls!

Through many different circumstances the Lord led my family away from that local church and denomination to places that I wasn’t so comfortable. Over the next few years I attended over 20 churches to find where God would have us meet with His people. The one that He eventually led us to was at the other end of the spectrum doctrinally. We didn’t agree on eternal security or sanctification among other things, but God was at work. This part of the journey was to break down barriers of denomination and to challenge assumptions previously considered doctrine. It was here that I learned not to try to put God in a box. God is God and not bound by my preconceived ideas of what I think He is or does. It was here that the Lord went beyond all those preconceptions. One night as I wrestled with this new freedom, He spoke to me. It never happened before and hasn’t occurred since, but that night He spoke to me in an audible voice. He said,”David, come walk with me. Remember Enoch. He walked with me, and I haven’t changed.” Now you know why this blog is called Enoch’s Walk. Join me in my journey as I attempt to walk as Enoch walked!