Acts 242,47
Pastor’s Blog
Can you “picture” the picture? Do you notice the wording, “sent into”, “built into”, “sent by”? The arial photo of the old New London Aiport now has a “Life Center” on it.
At an airport people come and go. The emphasis is on arrivals and departures. The hub is only for getting in and out of.
We have got to be different. For us the hub is everything. Airport hubs are impersonal and communication is all about efficiently getting to somewhere else.
At a Christian Life Center, however, the hub is all about life together. It is where I learn that other people are more important than me. It is where I learn that my ‘mission’ is the people I’m with, that where I am at the moment with the people I’m with at the moment matter. People are not simply tools to further my mission. They are brothers and sisters who shape me and with whom I grow into a bigger person than I could ever be on my own.
A Christian hub is one that is shaped by the life of Jesus, one that is formed around the biblical story which tells us who we are and what we’ve been created to be. A Christian hub is one where I discover my purpose in this life and am encouraged and empowered to embrace it.
A Christian hub, a church, is where God turns strangers into family who do life together with Jesus present. In this hub, people “land” because they want to join in. In this hub, people depart because they feel “sent” to tell others about this new life and invite them to join in. In this hub, it’s not about the physical building, rather it’s about what’s being built in the building, namely new creatures in Christ who find themselves “saved” in more ways than one.
Sent to community (the Christian hub, the church), built into community, and sent by community.
This then is picture of 2010 – 2011 and beyond at the CLC.
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