Looking for Purpose?

You may have noticed that our website has a series of rolling images. There is some purpose in that. I thought I'd chat a bit about the messages in the first of those images. 'Looking for Purpose?...An exciting adventure awaits'. Regardless of the status of our faith we are all looking for purpose in life. No one has the explicit goal of having a meaningless existence. We believe our ultimate purpose is to find our identity as children of God and live lives that glorify Him. As Christians we can't work that out outside of community so we have developed some small communities to help find God together and then work out how we can be most pleasing to Him. When we are pleasing Him we begin to discover exactly who we are and we really do find ourselves. We discover what being human is in all its fullness through Him! Pleasing Him is about becoming more like Him and He is a God who loves to be imitated. He gave us His son Jesus Christ as the model. To imitate Him we must engage with His goals, which are to see all people come into relationship with Him and see Him glorified. We work this journey out in community. We have discovered that the pursuit of this purpose certainly leads to an exciting adventure! Regardless of whether you are a follower of Jesus or not I highly recommend you try getting involved with a community that looks to be more like Jesus himself, you'll have a great adventure and you won't regret it. Don't believe me? Why not give it a try...

Miracles do happen

Here is a little story from our summer adventures that I mentioned last time round. James is a great guy who is part of CityChurch. In July he had a nasty fall and broke his ankle badly. In fact he broke six bones. At one point early on doctors were concerned he may even lose his foot. I'm a bit squeamish so I didn't like to look too closely and thankfully he had it in a great big boot. The boot, he was told would be on for 9 months and would secure the two metal plates that had been grafted in to secure his foot. After nine months he would have the boot and plates removed and then have the foot broken again and re-set without the plates. This was to be followed by nine more months in plaster. Not great! The x ray picture below shows the broken foot. If you don't quite understand it be assured that the leg bone is supposed to sit on the ankle not be completely detached as it is in this shot.

To further complicate matters James fell again and made it worse in August. Early September arrived and we upped our prayer. We have been building a culture of faith for the miraculous as we pursue the presence of God and have seen some great healings but this was a big one. However God is good and in early September James visited the doctors again and new x-rays showed that the bones were healed! The doctors removed the boot and told James he could walk on the foot! Praise God! Here is a picture I took of his ankles just last week.

Be encouraged that God does heal. Lets keep believing and keep persevering. We didn't just pray once for James, but we did keep going and keep building our faith. Let's here more stories like this one and keep sharing them. To the Glory of God.