"We believe God has NOT given up on the world...."
This past year has been an interesting season in my faith. I have wrestled with this idea of church and how to live out our faith. I have struggled with building community in the way that Christ talks about building community because our culture or society feels like it influences community way too much. It's hard to do something or take part in something that you don't feel like your doing it right.... I have not lost hope in Jesus, and who He was and is. I have become a greater cynic though... and I don't always like who I have become. I am too quick to criticize people and churches, in which I am thankful for grace. Building a community and a "church" certainly takes time and investing... And I am constantly reminded that I can not do this alone... My tendency has been to try and do it alone.. take it all on, and get burned out and frustrated when I realize no one else is fully in. Because in this society we are so far stretched, overcommitted, spread too ...