The following story sums up nicely what I live for:
6,000 Up In Smoke From http://withoutwax.tv/
•February 4, 2009 •
Last night at the Discovering Cross Point class our Nashville campus pastor Blake Bergstrom introduced me to a young man named Steve.
Steve had visited Cross Point Nashville for the first time on Sunday. He was blown away by the genuine, authentic community he experienced. Steve told me that up until Sunday his occupation was selling drugs. He lived in a dope house just a few blocks from the church.
He said after the service on Sunday he knew some things needed to change in his life. He went straight home and burned the $6,000 worth of weed he was going to sell this week. Wow!
It reminded me of how proud I am of the hundreds and hundreds of volunteers who partner together every week at both of our Cross Point campuses to create environments of life change.
You see we don’t JUST hand out programs. We don’t JUST babysit kids. We don’t JUST turn knobs on the sound boards. We don’t JUST sing and play instruments. We don’t JUST park cars. We don’t JUST serve coffee. We don’t JUST open up our homes for community groups.
We partner together to become the body of Christ. We play different roles, but each one of us is essential to the body. We partner together and God shows up in amazing ways and moves in people’s lives.
Like Steve.
Since Sunday he’s held a bonfire, he’s moving out of the dope house, he attended the new members class and he’s going to start in a men’s community group this week. Can’t wait to see what God is going to do in him and through him.
Transforming lives--what it's all about! I want everything I do to contribute to being part of a community that lives out the gospel so vividly, grace-fully, lovingly and radically that people's lives are transformed. So, help me, Jesus.
