The Long Game of Waiting
Nobody likes waiting. We build entire lives around avoiding it — faster shipping, faster answers, faster outcomes. But Acts 1 gives us a room full of disciples doing almost nothing except praying and waiting for a promise they do not yet fully understand. No movement. No clarity. No visible progress. And yet Jesus had told them to stay. Terry explores the slow rhythms of faith — the seasons where obedience looks less like movement and more like trust. Along the way, we wrestle with uncertainty, silence, delayed answers, and the uncomfortable truth that some of God’s deepest work happens long before we can see it. Because in the long game of Jesus, waiting is not wasted time.
Series Information
Lent through Pentecost traces the long road of Jesus toward Jerusalem — toward suffering, surrender, resurrection, and ultimately the sending of the Spirit. Again and again, the disciples misunderstand the path. They expect quick victory, visible power, and immediate clarity. Instead, Jesus keeps leading them deeper into a Kingdom that moves differently than the world expects. In this series, Terry walks us through the slower rhythms of faith — waiting instead of rushing, trusting instead of controlling, and discovering, often later than we expected, that resurrection was already moving beneath the surface. From ashes to fire, from wilderness to empty tomb, from fear to witness, The Long Game invites us to follow Jesus not merely toward Easter morning, but toward the kind of life that can only be formed over time.