Church planting blueprint
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Imagine a community of faith, love, and hope…
Where people relentlessly pursued becoming the person God created them to be…
Where people know what it means to rest…
Where people are seen as sacred, rather than buildings or structures or systems…
Where people are comfortable seeking, because everyone is seeking…
Where people are safe to wrestle with the most meaningful things of life…
Where people are invited to come as they are…
Where people accept that life is messy, struggle is a reality, but hope always prevails…
Where people discover how they might contribute to transforming their neighborhoods and our world…
Get off your seat, and come join us in creating this community of faith, love, and hope.
Some thoughts in progress…
[...] This past Sunday we held our first covenant membership class and we introduced our process as believe, belong, become. I first came across these words visiting Lon’s blog in November of 2006. A year and a half later and we at thebridge have made it our own. Thanks Lon! You can check his post – (here) [...]
Lon,
Talked to you a few weeks ago about the faith, hope, love, idea and how we were implementing it at our church. I have had an amazing few weeks of study and prep for my Sunday messages. I have wrapped the three in one word that is used in Acts 2:42-47 which has been our text for all three weeks. the word is "bread" . If you haven't heard Bells message Bread and Buckets you need to listen to it, amazing!
They broke bread together, they thought differently about their bread and gave it away, and they remembered Jesus by the breaking of the bread.