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possibility. I agreed that I would at least do that.
    Shortly, I received the material and looked it over. It was a larger church already running about 1,400 in attendance, and the community was one of the fastest growing in the country. It looked like a fantastic opportunity to reach people for Christ and grow a church. But for us to consider moving across the country away from our family, friends, and very comfortable lives, God would have to change our hearts. I prayed a simple prayer, “God, if this is You calling us to this church, then have them keep pursuing me. I won’t pursue it because You know my heart and my desire is to stay where I am.” Having prayed as I had promised, I confided in my best friend about the opportunity and put the material in a drawer. My wife and I didn’t really talk much about it, and I barely gave it another thought.
    Three months passed by and I didn’t hear anything else from the church. My friend walked in my office one day and asked, “Did you ever send a résumé to that church in Colorado?” I said, “No. I just prayed about it and asked that if this something God is leading in that they would continue to pursue me, but it has been three months and I have not heard another word. I am sure they have moved on to someone else by now; and honestly, I’m relieved because I really want to stay here anyway.”
    I had barely gotten those words out of my mouth when my assistant buzzed me on the phone to let me know there was a gentleman from Colorado on the phone for me. I recognized his name as being the person who had called me before from the church and I was a little freaked out at the timing, so I told my assistant, “I’m not available right now. Put him into voice mail.” I curiously listened to the message later. The voice on the other end said that God had continued to highlight me, and they would really like me to submit a résumé for the position.
    I called him back and we talked for a while. I told him I would go ahead and send a résumé but that he need to understand I was not really interested in moving. He said he understood but that they would still like to talk to me. So I sent the résumé and a week later they called back to say they would like to do a phone interview. I told them if they really wanted me to I would agree to the phone interview; however, I again reminded him that I really wasn’t interested in moving and didn’t want to waste their time. He said, “We understand but we would still like to talk to you.”
    We did the phone interview and days later they called back asking for a face-to-face interview. They wanted my wife and me to come to Colorado to meet with them. I responded, “I am not sure we should do that because we really aren’t interested in moving.” Again he assured me they understood but really wanted us to come out and meet with them. Well, at this point I thought it couldn’t hurt. We had never been to Colorado before and it might be a fun place to visit if nothing else, and so we agreed to come. The date was set and we would travel to Colorado a few weeks later, which was mid June.
    Before we went for that interview, I prayed two things specifically. I asked God if He was, indeed, calling us to move our family across the country and join Him in this ministry, that He would show me two specific signs that weekend of the interview. The first sign I asked for was that I would know that weekend whether or not they believed I was the one God was calling as their new senior pastor. I figured that was a pretty safe prayer, and it really would take a miracle for that to happen. They had, in fact, already told me they had search team members leaving for vacation and would not be able to reconvene to even discuss the interview until after the first part of July so not to be surprised if I didn’t hear anything for several weeks following our interview. I also knew this church was already very large and growing rapidly and were