CherryCreek

helping people connect with God

08/21/09

It was about two years ago that God cemented in our minds that His mission for us as a church was all about “helping people connect with God”. It was this personalization of Jesus’ “great commission” (Matthew 28:19,20) that has helped me to focus in on what I (and the church, together) should be doing.

I’m pleased that God has called us to “help people”. Churches have been accused of manipulating or coercing people into doing or believing things… we aren’t called to that. We are called to help people do what they really want to do – make a life changing connection with their Creator. People are built with the innate desire to connect with something… someone bigger. They are naturally drawn to the big questions of life:

• Where did we come from?
• What is the meaning of life?
• What happens after we die?

Helping people connect with the God who has the answers to these questions is a great privilege.

One of the interesting aspects to our mission is that as we help others connect with God, we develop a closer, a stronger personal connection with God, ourselves. In fact that is often the very best way for us to strengthen our connection with God. I don’t know for sure where this will lead us personally or as a church… but I can’t wait to find out.

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