Saturday 27 October 2012

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...

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