The hardest part about freely giving things away is that we want to claim that they are ours. We convince ourselves that we are entitled to what we have, that we have worked hard for our stuff, and that no one deserves any of it unless they prove worthy. Thank goodness that God did not feel this way when contemplating whether to send Jesus Christ to us.
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ANNOUNCING: Fall Women’s Bible Study!!!
Women’s Fall Bible Study
September 3 – October 22
6:30 pm
It Takes A Church To Raise A Christian
In Doug Pagitt’s book, Church Re-Imagined, he says, "In many ways, becoming Christian is much like learning our native language; we pick it up when we are immersed in it. I would guess that nearly all of us spoke and communicated long before we started our formal education. What we then learned in school was not the beginning of language use, but the refining of it.
It’s All About God
This past Sunday I said that I hope that we never become so attached to our devices of worship (type of music, clothing, prayer style, etc.) that we lose sight of the God that we worship. How we worship is only important to the extent that it helps to communicate God to us.