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I realize I haven't blogged much in the last couple of weeks.  It seems that as the church grows and as we engage in our three areas of focus (Connections, Connections, Connections...remember?), I seem to have less time to commit to connecting through my Blog. I'm working on it.

 

What a week.  It has been full of extraordinary highs and bottomless pit lows.  Ever have a week like that?  It has been a week of celebrations and challenges.  A week of fighting the good fight, and dressing wounds sustained.  A week of privilege and pressure.  A week in which Leslie and I looked at each other more than once and quoted Paul, as he is recorded in 2 Corinthians 4:7-9

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed...

And in verse 13-15, 

It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken."With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

And most importantly in verse 16-18,

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Pray that when God looks for those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth, He finds them at Crossroads.  God has promised us the Nations as an inheritance.  To you and me, that means those who do not yet know the eternal saving power of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Pray for that inheritance to be received in our church, and in all the churches of this city.  

God send the people to us who you have designed from the beginning for us to reach, and we will love them, and point them ALWAYS to Christ.  In His Name we ask.

See you Sunday.  Come to worship.  Come to serve.  Come to be mended.  Come to be filled.