{"id":562,"date":"2010-02-18T13:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2010-02-19T12:21:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:21:44","slug":"sunday-state-of-the-communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/sunday-state-of-the-communion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday: State of the CommUnion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once a year we, as a church,\u00c2\u00a0take a Sunday morning to look back on the last year and look forward to the next. It’s similar to the President’s State of the Union address. But because the church isn’t a union, but a community, and in communion with Christ, we call it the State of the Comm<\/em>Union (yeah, we know it’s kind of hokey, but after a few years it just kind of stuck).<\/p>\n

It’s not a usual Sunday for us, and not a usual sermon for me. We usually spend more time talking about “who we are” and “where we’re going” than just what a certain passage says. The passage we’ll look at this Sunday is Acts 2:41-47<\/a>. We’ll spend time talking about what it means, but we’ll also spend time “bragging on God” for what he’s done in our midst in the last year. We’ll take time to talk about what we see on the horizon for the next year — some things you’ll have heard just a bit about and some will be new to you. I’ll tell you things that have come out of hours and hours of some recent elders meetings on vision, communication, and planning — some things we’re very excited about and sense that God is in.<\/p>\n

In short, it’s a time for a locker room talk, a family meeting. And because I love my team, my family, I love these Sundays.<\/p>\n

As was mentioned on this past Sunday, remember that this coming Sunday we will also be having special prayer times during each of the services — either in the West Wing at 9:00 AM or in the Conference Room at 11:00 AM. Please plan to attend one of the services and the opposite prayer time, if you’re able to do both.<\/p>\n

Want to listen to last year’s State of the CommUnion message? Stop the clamouring. It’s right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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