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Here's a quote from Gordon Cosby of Church of the Savior in Washington, DC. I am officially adopting this quote for our community and Gordon Cosby can come whoop me if he wants to - here we go...
We will commit ourselves to an intensive love effort with a few people. We will be committed to smallness. Large numbers tend almost inevitably toward depersonalization and institutionalism, toward a lessening of commitment. So we resist the temptation of numbers and the power that comes through numbers.
This is where we are now. We have stopped looking for numbers. We have come to realize that while we are called to be missional, to "be Christ" to the world around us and to invite, by our lives, people into Christ with us, we are about the building this small community of people into truly transformed people. This small transformed community, and others that will spring from it, will be signs to the world.
Oh, and we're having our first monthly public gathering, the one I was talking about before, on Saturday, March 1st, at 5:00pm at the Church of The Apostles - 1321 Trent Blvd. in Lexington.
We want to thank our good friends at Apostles for their generosity and honor them for showing a spirit of unity in the Body of Christ. Thanks guys! Hopefull we'll see some of you there to hang out with us.
| posted by + Alan | 9:54 AM | |
Thursday, February 13, 2003
Wow! It has been a long time since I have written here.
Once again Matt did an awesome job of facilitating the meeting. We talked about self worth and what it meant to us. Great stuff. We took a lot of rabbit trails, but in all we talked for a long time. It is interesting when someone puts a question to you that you don't think about very often. You just seem to feel good or bad and don't consider where it is coming from.
Ephesians 1:11-14 in "The Message" says some good stuff. You all should read it.
| posted by liz | 7:59 AM | |
Thursday, February 06, 2003
We had a good meeting last night as Liz said. Matt started his month of facilitating with a discussion on Isaiah 58 - the true fast - with a twist. We talked not so much about the poor and opressed and downtrodden that we might go to downtown and then leave, but about those who may be "opressed" and "poor" in some way who are in our lives, who are among us all the time. This, we discussed, could be each other at times. It could be anyone we work with who is not desirable or unloveable. It was good. We prayed and listened for a while - prayed for each other - ended up praying for Matt - some encouraging things came out. And we talked about the monthly gathering that we're going to do. Soon - March 1st - that's a Saturday night. We don't know where yet but have some good ideas. I'll let you know. We're excited but not feeling pressure - this is good.
| posted by + Alan | 10:42 AM | |