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Easter Recap | Photos
Last Sunday we celebrated our resurrected King together as a newly forming church in the heart of the great city of Seattle. It was our second Easter together and easily one of my my favorite gatherings to date. It was also our largest gathering ever. Jesus is steadily, faithfully, patiently going before us. We look forward to what He has in store for us. Thanks to all of you who faithfully continue to prayerfully and financially support us. He is risen! (via Downtown Cornerstone)
This is a great article from Christianity Today, last July.
A must read for anyone who love Jesus, the church and their pastor(s).
“[The church] is a sinful community. It is, during most of its history, a weak, divided, and unsuccessful community. But because it is the community that lives by and bears witness to the risen life of the crucified Lord, it is the place where the reign of God is actually present and at work in the midst of history, and where the mission of Jesus is being accomplished…the reign of God is present in the midst of this sinful, weak, and divided community, not through any power or goodness of its own, but because God has called and chosen this company of people to be the bearers of his gift on behalf of all people.”
Cities are places of transition. Seattle is no different. Many people move to Seattle for school, work or new opportunities. Moving to a new city is difficult. But, finding a church that loves Jesus, believes the Bible and preaches the gospel is even more so. Since launching in April we’ve met many new-to-the-city Jesus-following transplants in search of a church to call home. That search is not as easy as it might sound, particularly in Seattle. What follows are questions I encourage people to consider when in search of a new church family. READ THE WHOLE POST HERE. (HT: Downtown Cornerstone Church)
“We come together in the name of the Lord. It is not to hear merry songs, to be fed with wind, that is, with a vain and unprofitable curiosity, but to receive spiritual nourishment. For God will have nothing preached in his name but that which will profit and edify.”
“The church, the community of Christ’s intentional followers, is called to be a foretaste of this life, this relational fellowship of love, a provisional demonstration of God’s will for all of creation. We are a people who, because we share in the Holy Spirit, participate in the eternal love of God. As such, we represent God in the midst of a fallen world through lives that reflect God’s own loving character. Only through relationships and in community can we truly show what God is like, for God is the community of love, the eternal relational dynamic enjoyed by the three persons of the Trinity.”
“We want [the world] to know, above all, that the church is not just another organization, another club to join and profit from, but is a holy movement of God’s Spirit that calls people to not be served, but to serve, to lay down their lives in order to glorify God and fulfill His purpose for humanity…the church is not incidental to true Christianity; it is essential to the sustenance of a Spirit-filled heart.”
“The true Christian, however, takes joy not most in what the church does for them, but in what God is doing in and through the church.”
Carved stone outside of an old Seattle church’s building. I love this. Powerful.
“The love [the Trinitarian] family shares is so intense, so rich, that it spills out from heaven into the world. In the era of the church, when Christ has accomplished His redemptive mission, the Father and the Son send the Holy Spirit into the world to bring mankind into communion with them. The Holy Spirit bring the collective love and beauty of the Trinity to the hearts of sinners through the gospel. Where the gospel is received by faith, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell.”
