I want to major on the things that we’re for. I want to put down the weapons of the sarcastic juke and judgmental stab and instead take up the tools that are constructive. I would rather be a part of micro communities building people up with truth than tearing them down with it.
God’s Micro Communities Should Be For:
- We’re for truth – the kind of truth that sets people free from bondage.
- We’re for love – showing love in practical, tangible ways in a self-serving world.
- We’re for life – imparting life in a world dominated by death and tragedy.
- We’re for human dignity – every person is a precious soul, and every soul matters deeply to God.
- We’re for healing – offering physical, emotional, and spiritual healing for the broken in a broken world.
- We’re for grace – the radical, Jesus-like kind that offends the religious and saves sinners.
- We’re for community – life-giving relationships between people who bear each other’s burdens.
- We’re for prayer – prayer that calls on an active and living God to move heaven and earth.
- We’re for faith – the kind that moves mountains, that expects God’s best.
- We’re for hope – that the King will return, rule, and reign in peace forever!
We’re for YOU!
We’re for you because God created you, loves you, lived for you, died for you, rose for you, and draws you to himself in love no matter your background, no matter your sin, and no matter what your story looks like.
Just imagine a culture in which the church is thought of as a body of people who are for people, even people who don’t look they would belong in the church. We start down this road as we declare with our words and demonstrate with our actions that our hearts are really burdened for everyone.
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