Tomorrow morning kicks off our first ever membership class. I decided to use this quote to kick it off.

“This is the kind of church and kingdom I want to be a part of ‐ a band of people who are messy, have
addictions and shortcomings, make mistakes, get rejected, and are screwed up, but are so fully aware of
the Master’s grace and love for them in spite of who they are or will be someday; people who embrace
discomfort knowing there is so much to be gained for all of us and for all of our churches.”
Dave Gibbons, author “The Monkey and the Fish”

I think that’s a great, no non-sense, approach to why we do church. We can’t ever forget that doing church isn’t so we can sit around and take pride in our numbers but so that we can see people get healed, delivered, changed and loved on. None of that is possible without God’s grace and love.

M