We have spent the last 2 weeks of our life as a church seeking God's heart for His vision for us as a people. We have been literally battered by Satan in the interim but have also sensed the Lord speak so powerfully into where this local church is heading.
I spent yesterday preaching into the truth that God has called Christ First as a local Christ Community into the stunning ongoing story of His Global Rehab project. We as a church are an essential section of the great tapestry that is God's Universal Redemptive initiative.
My thought is that as much as a church can seek to create a community that is a 'foretaste' of the CITY we see in Revelation chapter 21 the closer we are to being fully on board with the Missio Dei. It is a stunning thought! 70 people meeting in a cinema in Watford, England are spirit-empowered, spirit-gifted ambassadors of the Kingdom of God.
A charge I set before us as a people (that which I hope God would say to us) was this:
"A body of believers most like Christ is the 'most healthy' church."
These are just 12 marks that I feel would reflect that:
*COMMITTED *HEALING
*SERVING *HUMBLE
*REDEEMING *MISSIONAL
*PURE *SELFLESS
*OBEDIENT *LOVING
*GRACEFUL *TRUTH SOURCE
I hope to maybe expand each of those marks in this week. But hope they will be helpful.
Simon
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