Each week, I simply want to tell a story of life change and a story of what God is doing in the life of our church. After what we are really about is life change. We want to be a community living like Jesus changed by Him and changing the city for his glory. So I would love to take a few minutes each week and simply share how we are being and changed, how our neighbors are being changed and how great our God is.
Tertullian once said, “Just as Christ was crucified between 2 thieves, so this doctrine is ever crucified between 2 errors.” Each of these thieves steal the full beauty of the gospel & take the rich, and beautiful grace of God and makes it small.
Very often, when I am having discussions about faith with young adults I find that when they hear someone talk about the gospel there is a struggle to separate the heart of the gospel with religion and moralism. The assumption is that the heart of the Christian faith is a call to be more moral or to become a pharisee. Our hope is to distinguish, religion & moralism from the hope of the gospel.
There is a new term being used in economic circles these days. The phrase is the “new normal.” Its an interesting thought, and a complex topic but from what I understand the heart of the issue is that the recession is happening and many are adjusting to what some believe is the new normal. The new normal means that America is not the center of the global economy, it means that the boom of the 90’s is over and that everyday people must learn to adjust their patterns of buying, spending and selling. Roger McNamee author of the book The New Normal recently said, “the 90’s weren’t normal, but they altered our expectations. The 90’s have just made it harder for us to adjust to the new normal.”
