The vision was that there'd be a day when we'd come into church will expectancy. So like we would come in and expect to really be changed by hearing and living out Gospel truths. We would want to learn and we'd come and ask questions together. The hope was also that we would be a bunch of people who really understood who we were and who we were not. That we didn't judge other people because they weren't like us, but rather told every, "hey...there's room at the cross." It would be a place where nobody would feel left out because of either age, gender, personality, grade, or sinfulness. My prayer is that we finally be a people who would go, "Hey look...this is me, and this is my past, and this is what i'm struggling with now...and i desperately need Jesus to heal me of this and i desperately need you to walk with me on this. I know Jesus is better than what i'm settling for right now and i don't know why i'm stuck in this...help me."
The vision was also about a people that would always be concerned for each other - calling/texting/meeting up because they want to "do life" with each other. They would eat together frequently and talk about what Jesus is doing in their life. My prayer is that we would move way way beyond just "attending church." So that's the prayer...that Gospel might be at the center of us doing life together - young & old, all levels of education, all places of life, from all over the place...that we might laugh and cry and correct and party hard together as we are being transformed by Jesus.
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