We have shifted our paradigm of Fuel for March. We understand that we are going to be having a more open and public gathering on Sunday nights so our time at Fuel is being geared more like our vision for a small gathering. We have adopted the life - change bible study series and are walking through first Peter. Our format will be eating dinner, having few anouncements, a short time of worship, then going into a group discussion of 1 Peter. Each person has an assignment to work through 1 Peter that week. Every other week we break up in gender groups to discuss and pray together.
Tonight, we discussed our value of having the word of God as a foundation of our community. It is the centering piece in our community. Humanity is frail and we can't lean on it. But God's word is not frail, throughout history God's word has given strength and focus to followers of Christ. We recognize that strength is beyond an intellectual understanding of the Word's contents. There is something of the grace of God being given as we humbly read his word. And as someone mentioned last night, it's not so much we read and interact with the word as it is the word read's and interacts with us. We don't want to wander away from who God is calling us to be. We want to be the story that God is telling to our city. We believe the word's centrality will lend to that.
The other side of this coin to us is being open to the directing of God through the Holy Spirit. Without the Word's foundation we could drift into a fanatical emotionalism as we are open to direction through the Holy Spirit and we don't want emotionalism. We do want though to be hearers of God's voice. We realize we are strangers and aliens here on the planet. We are people of the kingdom and want to march to the beat of the kingdoms drums.
This was altogether a good night, a setting of foundations night. The journey is unfolding.
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