It is wednesday pm and the kids are coming on home from school. Just had a minute of down time and wanted to type a bit. Contemplating today about community and being a family of faith. I have been preparing a 12 week training video series that we are hosting in homes of our church members. Each week is basically fly by the seat of my pants. Shooting the video session (40-60 minutes); running off homework papers and editing the guidebook each week as we go. The video is accompanied by a powerpoint series that also needs to be updated and such. Pretty much that takes up to 3 days to complete (even with Heather helping with the typing) every week. The goal is to communicate the need of knowing how to function as a healthy and loving and powerful/authentic Christian community. As we began 180, the church, nearly 6 years ago, many people were interested in our church and how we developed small groups and such, but as we began to move on through the months, it seemed that community would wane with lack of commitment and involvement. Hence the training. We have learned that not much can be accomplished in the church when people look at it (church) like another activity. Church is not an activity it is a living body. When the church is passive and uncommitted to one another, there is little of lasting value that can be attained in the earth. Christ, works on an individual level, but Christ surely works in a corporate "body level" even more so. The church is compared to the body with Christ as the head. Can you imagine a body being disconnected. Or worse yet, being connected but not active? Anemic....paralyzed. So right now we are in a challenge phase...we are asking people to come in covenant with the church. We are all excited to be in covenant with Jesus, but because we are in covenant with Jesus, that makes us in covenant with each other. People are quite unsure about that type of deal. It just wiggs people out. Especially difficult people, loud people, obnoxious people.....But that is the type of people that Jesus partnered with. Loud mouth Peter, lovey dovey John, heady Luke. Jesus loves people and for the church to connect to who they want to instead of who they are called to, it becomes a membership like a country club instead of the body of the living God. Praying for a revelation for our church that we can love each other, love Jesus and COMMIT to standing with each other together in the days ahead. I think we will! GLORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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