What God is Leading us to

Well, I told you that I would start sharing with you all what I believe that God has been leading us to in this process that we have been going through so, I have decided to share a little today. I believe that the first thing that God has led us to during this stretch of time that has spanned a couple of years now is the overwhelming desire for community. It has been a yearning of our hearts to come together with a group of people in community and minister within that context. It is this direction that we believe that God is leading us to now. Over a year ago I felt that God was leading me to write a letter to a specific group of people and describe to them the direction that God was leading me to. That letter was sent to that group because I believe that God led me to those people specifically for this journey. Since then, I believe that God has led us to others who are part of it. Anyway, since our resignation from the church God has confirmed in us many times over that we are to be gathering in community and in doing so create a type of ministry that would more resemble the church than what the current institutional church looks like. It would in essence be a ministry “hub” or “center” that would go in a community and begin meeting the needs of that particular community. Out of that would birth a “church” in, what I believe, a more pure form. It would be a community that does more than just gather together a few times a week and hear the Word and sing, but rather it would be a community that gathers together in order to celebrate what God has done in us and through us throughout the week. We would gather to worship the God of all creation for the mercy that He demonstrated in our lives that week and gather together to encourage those among us that were facing trials. It would be a more honest community that would understand that all is not perfect and that we do struggle, but in those struggles we become stronger. The ministry that would take place would be very active ministry that would be totally determined by those involved and the will of God working in and through us. What that ministry looks like, I cannot really describe because it is dependent upon what God is calling others to do and how He has designed them to minister. I believe it is my place to create an environment that supports those in the ministry and allows them to do all that God has planned for them. So, the next question really is, Where? I have a place that I believe that God is leading us to, but the place is not nearly as important as the community. For, you see, community is not dependent upon location so much as it is upon the people. I believe that community is what God has intended for us from the beginning, and somewhere over time we began to believe that, we as followers of Christ, could be independents who gathered together in our social clubs a couple of times a week. As we look over the scriptures we see how the believers gathered together and invested themselves in each other’s lives. It is to that end, together with ministering to a hurting people that I believe He is calling us to. This seems to be just the tip of the proverbial “iceberg” of where I believe God is leading us, but it’s a start and I’ll share more at a later date.
Blessings