One of
the biggest things we do at The Community Fellowship is to create community by
interacting with people every day, not just during worship. Our lives,
both words and actions should literally demonstrate
the love of God to our community as we live. I walk out of the building we use now and
even think about our future campus all the while asking God to fill me with big
vision and His dreams. It happens again. God gives us more and more
pieces. We have been blessed with more resources to bless more people and
to honor God.
I hate
saying no. I love saying yes. I am talking about all we get to do
in regards to serving people and meeting their needs. We live in tough,
tough times. Job lose continues to be a daily issue. There are needs
on top of needs that we see each day. Do
you know what else is a daily issue? God is still God, and He is still
offering His best and giving real hope to any one who will accept it.
"The person who loves the people around them creates
community everywhere they go." Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
By
creating community around the purpose God has given us we are a living testimony
of Jesus. That's my calling. That's what I believe I am to lead
other people to do as well. We are touching lives one at a time for a
cause much bigger and far outside of what we can do on our own. Offering
hope creates community.
Have you
noticed that when the people of God get together to accomplish a great task
that the effort and the overflow leads to more and more people to meeting God?
It is like a bomb going off, and the results, what is left behind, the evidence
of the goodness and grace of God. We have a saying that we began with at
The Community Fellowship ... we are to get the attention of the people around
us and while we have their attention, tell them about Jesus. That is
huge. And that creates real and living community. Lets offer hope
in Jesus' name and know that is the outcome.
1 Timothy 4:10 nlt
This is why we work hard and continue to
struggle, for our hope is in the living God, who is the Savior of all people
and particularly of all believers.
Ephesians 2:12 nlt
In those days you were living apart from
Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you
did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this
world without God and without hope.
Matthew 12:21 nlt
And his name will be the hope of all the
world."
Offering hope
creates community as we share the love of God with those we meet.
NOTE: much of this post was shared in 2009 with
readers of my e-devotion.
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