I’ve been asked to prep for a wedding in September. I decided this was a good time to check on all the legalities for this state and county. It was a real adventure riding my bike into Downtown Oklahoma City where the County Courthouse stands (roughly 16 miles/26 km). Hey, bicycle parking is free; motor vehicles are $5 and up.
I had already been properly credentialed years ago. In 1983 some Southern Baptist church ordained me and I took that to the county offices where I lived back then. In Oklahoma, one registration in any county is good for life in the whole state. Change your affiliations, etc., but you don’t have to come back and do it again unless you change your name or something like that. However, it was hardly a wasted trip because the laws have changed a good bit over the years. The registrar gave me a really nice briefing and some documents to help me keep track of things.
Pray with me, dear readers. In the coming months, I sense there will be a need for a genuine hands-on, meat-space version of my ministry here on this blog. Granted, I fancy myself an elder and not a pastor in meat space, but I also recognize the fundamental nature of my calling is somewhat apostolic in the sense of building a whole new kind of work from scratch. So while I will always emphasizes the eldership work, my calling requires that I be ready to play the pastoral role, too. For Christ’s sake, do not take this as some announcement that I intend to use the title of “apostle.” If you need to use some honorific, let’s stick with “Brother Ed”. If your only contact with me is through this blog, then you can call me “pastor.”
Nothing else has changed and what I’ve posted in the various tabs arrayed across the top of this blog are still in force. I remain firmly unaffiliated in large part because no existing church or religious organization can put up with my teachings. I would love to have sponsorship and something more concrete, but that hasn’t happened yet. Aside from the occasional wedding and funeral, my primary ministry work has been in the computer tech support ministry, along with the writing and book publishing. I believe things will change, but I have no idea what the expect, so I’m simply staying open to the possibilities.
Thanks for taking the time to read.
Edit: I suppose I should hasten to add that nothing about this prevents me from traveling to some other place to help get something going there, or even the consider staying for a while.
