Our campus pastor Matt Taylor sits down to have conversations with guests each week. Listen as they dive deeper into the Gospel and highlight ways to live missionally.
In The apostle Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, he wrote direct, often harsh, words to a dysfunctional church. His second letter to them indicates they heard his words and worked on becoming more of the community of believers they were called to be. Now, when so many people are claiming the church is less relevant and less needed, full of failings and flaws, we can read in Paul's second letter the encouragement for us to do the same, to intentionally work together to escape the dysfunction and become functional instead - embracing Christs call to unity of mission, vision, and purpose.
In The apostle Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, he wrote direct, often harsh, words to a dysfunctional church. His second letter to them indicates they heard his words and worked on becoming more of the community of believers they were called to be. Now, when so many people are claiming the church is less relevant and less needed, full of failings and flaws, we can read in Paul's second letter the encouragement for us to do the same, to intentionally work together to escape the dysfunction and become functional instead - embracing Christs call to unity of mission, vision, and purpose.
In The apostle Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, he wrote direct, often harsh, words to a dysfunctional church. His second letter to them indicates they heard his words and worked on becoming more of the community of believers they were called to be. Now, when so many people are claiming the church is less relevant and less needed, full of failings and flaws, we can read in Paul's second letter the encouragement for us to do the same, to intentionally work together to escape the dysfunction and become functional instead - embracing Christs call to unity of mission, vision, and purpose.
The new year often calls us to resolutions for doing something new - "shape up" physically, mentally, emotionally, even spiritually - and escaping the "ordinary you." Paul tells us, however, that we are already new creations in Christ, so maybe the call to extraordinary faith is simply the call to living that reality out with everyday faithfulness in every area and facet of our life.
The new year often calls us to resolutions for doing something new - "shape up" physically, mentally, emotionally, even spiritually - and escaping the "ordinary you." Paul tells us, however, that we are already new creations in Christ, so maybe the call to extraordinary faith is simply the call to living that reality out with everyday faithfulness in every area and facet of our life.
The new year often calls us to resolutions for doing something new - "shape up" physically, mentally, emotionally, even spiritually - and escaping the "ordinary you." Paul tells us, however, that we are already new creations in Christ, so maybe the call to extraordinary faith is simply the call to living that reality out with everyday faithfulness in every area and facet of our life.
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