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Community Fest and the Power of the Gospel

I've lost track of the number of times the past year and a half or so that I've been at a church gathering or study or worship service and just sat back and smiled, thanking God for all He is doing. Truly we are in a holy and precious season. We must not lose our focus. We must stay rooted in Scripture, committed to the authority of God's Word and we must stay in prayer and we must continue to guard the bonds of peace as we move forward toward facility expansion and new buildings, and, more importantly, engaging our communities with the gospel. Everything we do must be for the glory of God. Everything. 

As we approach our Community Fest on October 21, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., we must stay in prayer and ask the Lord to use us to bless our neighbors and communities. We have a tremendous opportunity to show our ethnically diverse community the transformative power of the gospel!

One of the things the Lord has been doing in our church is building His church to look a lot like the communities around us. What a blessing it is to be a multi-generational, multi-ethnic congregation of believers! The gospel changes everything. The gospel does away with the distinctions lost humanity makes (Jew, Greek, Gentile, Barbarian...white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and so on), because in Christ, we are all one. We share the same Lord, the same baptism and the same Holy Spirit. 

We get to see this fleshed out weekly and throughout the week in the church. Praise God for that!  

Other things that bless me that the Lord has been doing: this church has a profound love for, hunger for and justifiably high view of Scripture. People are coming here hungry and eager to be in a place where they will hear the Word taught, preached and explained unapologetically (but graciously of course)! People are coming here hungry to pray, to be on mission, to impact the communities and the world for the glory of God! There is a gospel humility that is so beautiful to see. I praise God for this church!

No church is perfect, but we certainly can thank God for the amazing things He has been doing and is doing and ask Him to use us for His Kingdom purposes and glory.

Think with me: Does our culture need to see and experience what we do as a church? Absolutely. We see a culture that is spiritually and morally adrift, unsure of truth, looking for answers (and often in all the wrong places), broken, isolated, hurting, lonely, and, at the same time, we see great polarization, factions and, if we are honest, we also see a lot of anger and hatred. Our culture is lost, is desperately soul-sick. Our culture needs Jesus.

Here is what I am asking us to do. I am asking us to pray now that God would use us to show the culture a much more excellent way! Let us be about the business of sharing the gospel because Christ is humanity's only Hope. When Jesus saves, He changes hearts and minds. His saving work adopts us into the family of God. We become brothers and sisters, no longer aliens and strangers, no longer alienated from God and one another...how amazing is that? How beautiful is that?

Our culture needs to hear the gospel and see the gospel in action. Community Fest is just one of many opportunities we have to do just that. If you have not yet found your place to serve, please let us know and we will plug you in. Let us all be in prayer for this time, so that we might be used by God for His glory and Kingdom purposes on that day!

If you are reading this and you are in our communities, we invite you to come! We invite you to come and see the power of the gospel to create brotherhood and sisterhood that goes far beyond anything this culture can offer.  We invite you to ask questions about the Good News of Jesus Christ. We invite you to come and have an enjoyable time with your family playing games and enjoying food and music. We invite you to get to know your neighbors. You are always welcome here!

God is Good, and He is at work! Let's thank and praise Him as He is worthy, and let us keep our eyes fixed on Christ, the Author and Perfector of our faith, so that we might run the race well that is set before us!

For the King and His Kingdom!

Grace to You,

Pastor Kevin