Read "Monday, Day 1," pgs 16-19 in your 30 Day Challenge GuidebookPsalm 133:1 (Common English Bible)
Look at how good and pleasing it is when families live together as one!
Nothing ever makes me happier as a Dad than watching my boys live in true peace and unity together. This Psalm makes me think that something about God's own heart works in the very same way.
On the deepest level of creation itself, we need authentic community. Even our understanding of God as Trinity is a beautiful example of community. The perfection completion of Alpha and Omega means Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Even so, something in us resists. Something in us is afraid. Something is uncertain and anxious. Something in us wants "easier."
But until we live together in authentic community, no church and no disciple can really be thought of as complete.
These 30 days of challenge offer an opportunity for dramatic personal transformation, and for a remaking and re-imagining of what is possible in the life of our church. We shouldn't think that will be easy. It is a "challenge," after all.
We are not called to be a club for people of shared interests or socio-economics. We are not called only to affirm one another in what we already think and believe. Scripture tells us that we are to be as iron that sharpens iron. We are to build a home of real, authentic community on the shared foundation of the grace that saves us.
That is a challenge worth taking up.
Grace & Peace,
Adam
This week's Big Challenge: Join a small group for authentic community and accountability. Today's Small Step: Think of the 10 most important relationships in your life. Where has a gap or separation grown in one of those relationships? Call that person today and set up a time to meet and make things right. Today's Really Good Question: What makes your church a true home?
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