Journey Life
This message is going out to all who have connected with the Journey in any way, however brief.
Doing Life together is one of the things that defines us here at the Journey. Real Community is something that must be intentionally pursued. The world that we live in is fragmented and tends to leave people isolated from one another in this race type environment. Go to Starbucks and you’ll see what I mean. People go to this community place so that they can ignore one another. Go figure.
A key Bible passage for us here is Eccl. 4:9-12: “Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up. And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.”
This passage emphasizes the value of relationship and community. Why do we choose to remain alone? Why do we stay on such a superficial level with almost everyone? Even at many churches, people do not allow themselves to be known for fear of what everyone will think of them. No one wants to be judged, and most of us have enough rotten trash in our closets to keep us in hiding.
The one thing that is hard for us to swallow is that if we are actually known by others, healing flows from that. We all have enough dysfunctional crap in our lives that we need constant healing from the good hand of God. The way that God chooses to heal us is through relationship, we just miss out because we keep it at arms length most of the time. I am not saying that we do not have friends, but how often do we really let people know us? Especially those who can apply the healing activity of God in our lives.
Enough of my rambling. I want to tell you about some of the opportunities here at the Journey for you to deepen relatioinship and get plugged in here with people who have decided to do life together here.
We are still in formation stage in many ways, with our previews being a large part of our focus right now. Many of you were able to be apart of our first preview, and hope you will be apart of our second one. Apart from this focus on the previews, we are having a weekly meeting on Wednesday nights starting at 6:30. We have a pot-luck dinner where everyone brings something that they either cooked or bought from a gourmet restaurant like Taco Bell and we share in the variety together. About 7:30 we begin a bible study called “Gospel Christianity”. This is a great class for those who have been Christians a long time and for those who may not yet have a relationship with Christ, as well as those who are still new in the faith. It is a discussion oriented class with great curriculum that helps us to get deeper and answer questions about the “Gospel” of Jesus.
Currently, we do meet every week on sunday mornings at 10 am. This meeting does not yet feature the whole band but is a great opportunity for people to further get to know each other and feel out what being on the launch team is about. Folks start showing up as early as 9:15 am to drink coffee, eat some doughnuts, and just hang out to talk till service starts. For the next few weeks, we are taking the time on sundays to go deeper into the preview messages with people having the opportunity to ask questions and talk through the issues. The mornings of each preview are spent in prayer and then we send out everyone to public places to hand out flyers and cards with information about our preview services.
September 21st will be the day of our weekly launch. This day and all Sundays afterward, will feature a 10am and a 7pm worship service, where we rock the place every service. Be sure to tell your friends and co-workers about the previews and Launch dates. They are as follows:
August 24th-7pm preview
Sept 7th-7pm preview
Sept 21st-10 am and 7pm Weekly launch.
The Journey is gaining momentum from the responses of interested people. Help us keep it going. The best way for people to hear about the Journey is for people like you to tell them about us. See you soon.
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