First Series and Keystones

Today was spent doing some brainstorming for our first series "Life in HD". I met up with Wil and Reggie at Marathon North and we brainstormed through all four messages in that series. We came up with some cool stuff that will challenge and stretch us all. Be sure to go ahead and be inviting your friends and neighbors to our first service on 10.07.07 @10:07 a.m. at Wren High School.

One of the main things Stone Bridge will be focused on is Keystones, which is our home group or life groups. Doing life together as seen in Acts 2 is a key component of what the church was created to be. Keystones will be a basis for discipleship, fellowship, missions , and evangelism. If Keystones operates the way the early church operated, we will see people come to Christ in our everyday lives as we come in contact people day by day. A friend gave me some interesting material this week. It basically said that a church can be an organization where Sundays become the entire focus or the church can become a living organism through life groups. Once a church moves beyond an organization and transforms into a living organism, then true life change begins to take place. Church then moves from being a building or a service and turns into a lifestyle lived out daily by the Body of Christ. Then our "services" become a celebration of what has taken place throughout the week in the life of the church.

My prayer is that we will will become like that. A church that does life together and as we do, a community is changed.