What a marvelous day yesterday turned out to be! The weather was just spectacular --too good, in fact, to be holed up in an office after four full nights of seminar. So, after picking up Trae at school, the girls and I got into some comfortable clothes and stayed outside until sundown.

We swang. We chased ducks. We played at the park. We played pitch. We went for a walk through the neighborhood. We picked some budding bluebonnets. We rode bicycles. We visited with neighbors. We talked. We laughed. We shared.

I think I've reached a stage of life where days like yesterday are just about perfect. It didn't cost a lot of money. Didn't require a lot of travel. But the investment of time always produces sweet memories.

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Last year at the Tahoe Encampment, Truitt Adair peared into his crystal ball and made this poignant prediction: The left will leave and the right will fight while the mainstream maintains.

Now, I know the left leaving gets a lot of play, especially with the forthcoming Tulsa Workshop's commitment to a 100-year family reunion with our relatives in the independent Christian churches.

But what about the right? Take a look at this Contending for the Faith Lectureship Schedule and tell me the far-right isn't going to fight their way into oblivion. For an interesting on-line discussion related to this very thought, see Mike Cope's blog from yesterday.

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Finally, let me ask this question, one that baffles me to no-end: Why do we invest any time or energy whatsoever in what another church teaches or how they worship when one of the hallmarks of our heritage is autonomy? Why is the engine that drives the train in many churches "brotherhood issues" when those said issues have no bearing whatsoever on the autonomy of the local church?