I am Different now
People and the way they connect and build one another up to become more like Christ.
This is the one reason why I love church. Sure you have serving and teaching and organization and leadership and bearing one another’s burdens and music, and for some there might be other reasons why they love the church, but for me, that’s it.
Last night Carie and I finished another season connecting and building up (and being built up) a group of people who we have come to love as our family. We mixed in there a few people who will be a part of our next season of community, and in the midst of all this, I’m reminded why I do what I do. It will be another few weeks of awkward time getting to know a new group and having them get to know us. No doubt there will be some lull in the conversation and an inability to decipher what someone is trying to say, but in the end, I’ll be back here in a year or two writing in this blog, on a natural high, telling you how I’ve come to love this new group of people.
We are expanding our influence, challenging one another to serve, love, and give more than we think, and moving to deeper levels of intimacy with the God who we serve and the Christ who makes it possible.
And in the process, we become different people
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