:: Fuel moves into 2004

Tonight at Fuel we ate dinner together.

After dinner we went over our calendar and then began to talk of what God was doing among us.

As Resonance moves into 2004 the Lord is giving us some simple guidance and encouragement:

1. Simplicity:
In a world that is busy and noisy we are to simplify. Simplify our lifestyles so we can embrace being disciples of Christ and embrace being on the disciples journey with a community of faith.

2. Prayer, Praise, and the Word are to be a centerpiece at Resonance.
This may not happen in exacting slices like 20 minutes for prayer, 20 minutes for the word, and 20 minutes of praise. We think God is going to be creative and meld these three. The form that takes may be different each time we meet. But these practices of touching the eternal God are primary in our ecclesiology.

3. God is going to give us a second wind
As we have made this transition and began this new journey there has been much pruning in our lives. We believe there will be some fresh wind that catches our sails and helps us get to Gods desired journey. Zephaniah 3:14-21 outlines: God will take away your judgements, He will rejoice over us with gladness and He will bring exiles to us.

4. We are shedding old skins and putting on new clothes.
Leaving our lives of last year have been tough, especially the things we loved about them, but we hear God is helping us shed old skins that we might embrace a new time and fresh clothes that will be a blessing to the kingdom of God.

5. The message of God's incredible love at the cross is what we are to preach.
We are pretty sure that today if the gospel was packaged the Ressurection would be in bright colors and in bold glittery print. There might be a small tagline on the back of the package in letters hard to read: to get ressurection you must first go to the cross. Yet it is the cross that is significant in showing us how much God loved us. In the cross there is great sacrifice, their is pain and suffering, there is incredible servanthood. It is at the cross that Gods love for us shines the brightest.