just a process to get us to the destination: the summit,
relationship with God, intimacy with our Creator,
walking with Him, knowing Him, being like Him,
having fellowship with Him. The path we get there
on is Grace – not performance, legalism, or any other
means. Sometimes, we want to stop on the path and
begin worshiping a message which can lead to a lot
of abuses. The summit – Christ Himself – is bigger
than the summation of the message. We’re trying to
provide bumper lanes to keep people centered on the
Gospel while allowing them freedom of expression.
We’re trying to call people back together, to bring
them out of isolation. It might be dangerous, but let’s
trust each other again, work together again, recover
some lost ground, continue to see people set free of
legalism, but not throw ourselves recklessly into lawlessness or Universalism as an extreme. Grace teaches
us to say ‘no’ to ungodliness; it comes in and becomes
the motivation to live in a certain way and produce
these things. We’re looking for people who get that,
who understand that, and are ready to work together
in a whole new way.
It’s not about ‘doing church’ – it’s about changing
the world and our communities. God has put us in
a unique position: as far as we know, we’re the only
radical Grace church-planting network in the world.
(I hope I’m wrong… I hope there are others out there
doing what we’re doing and we just haven’t heard of
each other, but as far as we know we’re the only one.)
Eventually, someone finds us and begins asking what
this process looks like. We get calls from all over the
world; a lot of times, we can help. Sometimes we just
encourage – they have a specific direction but aren’t
ready; they’re still in Post-Traumatic Church Disorder phase, and not sure they can trust an organization
yet, but they’re flirting with the idea. To us, the goal
is to utilize wisdom in order to innovate what we do
and how we do it to get gospel out most effectively.
We have to be willing to use any means necessary to
share this message and shape that goal in a way where
we can reach the maximum number of people.
Photo by: A Love Worth Telling
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