Community

Community has been on the brain a lot lately...guess that happens when you have to teach on that topic. Additionally we had our community group leaders over last night for the start of our monthly leadership community.  This was a time to hear the wins, the challenges and to equip our leaders.  Though no group is perfect, and we certainly have challenges, it was so encouraging to hear the stories of how Gospel transformation is happening within the context of community.  I love that we are launching CrossPointe as more than a service...in fact, I'm not sure how we'd really be functioning as a church without these groups.  They've been a huge part of what we are doing.  I loved this quote that I came across last week in doing teaching prep...

Sometimes in church circles when people feel 

lonely, we will tell them not to expect too 

much from human relationships, that there is 

inside every human being a God-shaped void 

that no other person can fill.  That is true. 

But apparently, according to the writer of 

Genesis, God creates inside this man a kind of 

“human-shaped-void” that God himself will 

not fill. 

--John Ortberg 

Lastly, in an attempt to communicate how God is at work in and through these groups we showed the following video to intro the teaching this past Sunday.  Check it out.