Overflowing Relationships

We were talking about why we are pursuing the idea of Church Planting on Sunday and we were talking about one of our core values, Overflowing Relationships. One of the reasons we plant Churches is because it develops grows those kinds of relationships. It seems counterintuitive, and yet, when is it that you become most closely connected with other people? The obvious answer is that you become most connected when you are on task with like minded people. That is why Church is never a spectator sport and why great relationships in the Church don't happen just because people are in the same general vicinity. Rather we grow relationships as we labor together in the gospel. The gospel is the high calling, overflowing relationships result. But because the gospel of Christ has preeminence, we can take the great relationships we have and make the changes necessary to see many more partake of the gospel of grace...even if it hurts relationally.

Staying on mission/staying on task:

• Won't always be easy
• Won't always feel good
• Will bring glory to God

We have what it takes. Not because of anything good in us, but because everything good and necessary is in our Savior.