Significance

I have been recently having some confusion/frustration with the community group my wife and I lead.  Quite literally, at times, I am sitting there on Monday nights wondering "what in the world is going on right here" "why is this significant enough for people to even show up?"  

but

this morning I gained some clarity.  I do this to see people come alive.  To see people engage their relationship with God at deeper levels.   I do it to see people who are hurting, reserved,  and insecure engage friendships, receive some healing and find security in our community.  I do it so that people know, they are taken seriously.  

I do it because I want to provide a place where people can engage life to the fullest.  Where they can be real, let people see their ugliness and but keep fighting for beauty.  A place where they find other real people who don't have all the answers but want to journey side by side, bearing each other's burdens and speaking truth to one another.  Where righteousness purity, love, friendship are held as high values, but not used for condemnation.

I do it for Restoration.  to see people's hearts restored,  made whole, and able to love as Christ loves us.  

I know what we do is not perfect and I wouldn't want it to be..... but these things I have talked about are worth fighting for.  People's hearts are worth fighting for... and this is what I want our group to be about.  Fighting for each other, when we cannot fight for ourselves.