With this issue of the newsletter we turn a corner. Yes, you can say it: “Spring is just around the corner!” And with that is the truth that one can build a life upon: “He is risen! He is alive” But those Easter words that point us to an empty tomb are intended for a life full of…well full of life! And that is what you will find in the pages of this newsletter.
Let’s remember that we are on a journey together to becoming fully devoted followers of Jesus. Each and every thing that we seek to do is geared toward that journey. So may I ask you, “How’s the journey going?” Or, “Where are you on the journey toward becoming a fully devoted follower of Jesus?”
Sometimes it is easy to think that this journey is one that we can do on our own. Sometimes we think it would be easier to do so. But this journey is tended to be discovered, nurtured and lived out in, through and from community. This community of God’s friends on the journey to becoming fully devoted followers of Jesus is a large part of God’s plan for us to live the life that is full of life!
“Sin leaves us captive to destructive patterns of life…Liberation from our captivity requires an ongoing process of being formed and transformed by God’s grace in and through the friendships and practices of Christian communities.” (Stephen E. Fowler and L. Grgegory Jones, Reading in Communion, pg. 31)
What does this have to do with an empty tomb that gives us life full of life? Simply this: Just like Easter is not something we take off the religious shelf of our lives once a year, so the community cannot become something that we seek just occasionally or when it works. It is part of the plan God has for us to discover the life that is full of life from the empty tomb that declares, “He’s alive!” The same can be said of us as well!
In these pages are entry points to this life. Life that you, me, we can experience together.
In HIS Adventure of LIFE in Community,