Three C's-Community

Christianity is more than a religion--it's a relationship with God. During our series, Connecting the Dots, we've discovered that too often there's a disconnect between our faith and how we live our everyday lives. We can compartmentalize God, keeping Him as a "Sunday thing" we do, instead of seeing Him as real and actively involved in the world in which we live. 


We've been learning about three important groups of relationships--the three C's. The first is our relationship with Christ. The second, is our relationship with our community. God desires for us to take this incredible relationship that we have experienced with Christ and share it with the community where we live, work and do life. 


Community is being devoted to loving people and influencing our culture by following Jesus into the broken, hurting world around us.

Three C's - Christ

This month, we began a new series, Connecting the Dots. Too often there’s a disconnect between our faith and how we live our everyday lives. Yet, God is real and He is actively involved in our lives and our world.

Throughout our series, Gregg will be discussing the three most important groups of relationships for us to have as Christ-followers—we’re calling them the three C’s. The first is our relationship with Christ.

We experience how real and reliable God is when we trust Him first. Going to God should not be a last resort, but a first resort. Here are some practical ways to trust Him first in your life this year. At the first of each day, seek God. At the first of each week, gather together for worship. At the first of each month, give God your tithe. And at the first of each year, set aside time to seek God through fasting and prayer. 

As for the other two, you'll have to come back next week, or see you Sunday!

A New Normal

A new year. Time to reflect and re-evaluate for the year ahead.

The Christmas season is a special time of year when God’s presence invades our culture like no other time of year. People are thinking of him, talking about him and celebrating His goodness.

Once January hits, the temptation is to settle back into our old routine—the busyness of life in which God becomes less noticeable.

My hope this year is that I would adopt a “new normal”. The active, visible presence experienced through December would naturally continue throughout the year.

A new year. A new normal. Serving a real God who is actively involved in my real life and world.