I've been thinking about a theme for 2011 @ Community of Joy. This year we will explore the theme, "Taking Jesus Seriously" in our life and worship together.
In thinking about that theme, I saw this quote today in a magazine from a book called The Pursuit of the Holy: A Divine Invitation by Simon Ponsonby. "No one will listen to our gospel if we aren't living it. We cannot influence or infect society with something that has not yet infected us... The church must again find and follow Jesus - not as a doctrine to be believed, but as a Lord to be served and a life to be lived. Only then can we speak with integrity and expect to be heard."
Too many of us have made God into our image, instead of recognizing that we are made in his image. For many of us, we have defined Jesus in such a way that we miss the mark of who he was and what he was about. That is why I plan for us to spend a year under the theme "Taking Jesus Seriously."
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