Gospel-Centered Community I had the opportunity to preach the other day and did so on what it means to be a community formed around the Gospel. This is important because our culture continues to change dramatically in how people view themselves and interact with one another. The danger as a church is to change to this shift in order to make ourselves more palatable to our culture. Check out the notes and mp3 here: Gospel Community

Church Planting Resources - I am partnering with a couple of other administrators of church plants to create a community that will help church planters. We hope that in time this will be a great resource for information in regards to building systems, implementing vision, administration and technology for your church plant. If you are in a position in a church plant in one of these arenas and would like to learn more go to: www.churchplantingresources.com

Celebration
This Sunday was a great day. After the service a woman met with David and accepted Christ. It was incredible to see the journey she went through as two of our congregants knew her and God drew her to Himself. She had so many questions but ultimately came to a place of peace as she put her faith in Christ.

Community
Also we had a lot of new visitors. It was great to see so many new faces. I will be preaching in two weeks and I plan on preaching on Gospel Community. How would our church look if we had never seen a church before and found the Bible? What would we do? It seems so many Americans have a self-focused view of coming to Christ. When we are 'born-again' we become part of a body. I want to reflect on what this looks like, how can we view of faith in relation to the believers around us? How can we live out the gospel together? More to come...

Acts 29- Are you looking for a Gospel-centered missional church?
A29 (www.a29.org) is a network of churches planting churches in North America and around the world. We sense that God is moving in new and specific ways, particularly in the emerging cultural context of North America. We are called to raise up leaders and equip them through a web of relationships and resources. Our aim in all this is to plant healthy and effective missional churches, who will in turn reproduce themselves through further church planting.

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