Face to Face Church | A Place To Belong
A Place to Belong: “Face to Face Church”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, Luke 17:1
My prayer for our church isn’t that people would ATTEND, it’s that people have a RELATIONSHIP with Jesus.
A community of people who are IN COMMUNITY with one another and who are CREATING COMMUNITY for one another.
GROWTH and MATURITY always happen in the context of RELATIONSHIP.
As a church, what we’re asking our Heavenly Father to do at Faith is:
Create ENTRY POINTS for people EXPLORING and COMING BACK to their faith.
Helping people who are FOLLOWERS of Jesus to CONTINUE to GROW in their faith by DISCIPLING other followers of Jesus.
Helping people who are FOLLOWERS of Jesus to CONTINUE to GROW in their faith by DISCIPLING other followers of Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
v.10 “If either of them FALLS down, one can help the other up. But PITY anyone who falls and has NO ONE to help them up!
v.12 “Though one may be OVERWHELMED, two can DEFEND themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly BROKEN.
At some point in our lives, we all need some, SOMEBODIES.
“Jesus said to his disciples, It is INEVITABLE that STUMBLING BLOCKS will come into your life.”
Luke 17:1
Jesus is saying, it’s impossible to go through life in this world without there being things YOU don’t see coming. But, that does’t mean NOBODY saw it coming. Somebody can see IT coming.
Life in community is PREVENTATIVE.
There are things you will never have to FACE, things you may never have to FEEL, and PROBLEMS you’ll be BETTER EQUIPPED to face, simply being in a GROUP of people who open and apply God’s Word TOGETHER.
Community is like RETIREMENT SAVINGS; if you WAIT you WON’T HAVE it when you NEED it.
When you NEED relationships the most, thats always the WORST time to try and develop them.