Community Christian Church - GA

We live in a culture where individuality and authenticity are, quite possibly, our highest values. None of us want to see ourselves as “just like everyone else.” We want to be independent thinkers who carve out our own path, and (as Fleetwood Mac might have said) “go your own way.” Philosopher Byung-Chul Han refers to modern people as “entrepreneurs of the self”. We all want to be our authentic se...

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Ronald Rolheiser once said: “Gratitude is the ultimate virtue, undergirding everything else, even love. It is synonymous with holiness. Gratitude not only defines sanctity, it also defines maturity. We are mature to the degree that we are grateful.” This seems to echo Paul’s statements in the closing of this second section of his letter to the Phlippians. One of the central characteristics to a ci...

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The second law of thermodynamics, practically explains that everything in the physical world is naturally moving towards disorder. Entropy is the measurement of chaos or disorder within a given system or category. Things fall apart naturally, so it’s harder to keep them together. This is true in the physical world, in relationships, and in any community. Keeping unity within any community is diffi...

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Becoming citizens of God’s Kingdom just may put us at odds with the kingdoms and cultures of this world that call for our allegiance. And as we talked about in our last series, it may cause us to abandon the hopes of a Christian nation - a nation where Christians force others to behave as we see fit. Instead, we choose to live as faithful witness of the Jesus nation here in foreign territory. For...

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Jesus’ final instructions to His followers were not - go and make the world a better place. Or go and take over the world, so what I want done can be done. He called us to go and make disciples, and the way He told His disciples this would happen is that they would be “His witnesses in all the world” (Acts 1:8). The Church is to be the witnesses that God’s Kingdom has come into being through Jesus...

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With the mental health crisis continuing to grow, so many of us want to do something to fix this in our world. But most of us are left wondering - what can we do? There may be very little that we can do to fix this problem in our world or even in the lives of those we love, but what we can do is to make sure those in our lives know that Jesus cares deeply about their mental health and to be a non-...

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There is so much suffering and need and injustice in our world, and followers of Jesus have been called to Do Something about this. But it’s difficult to know what’s the right thing to do, when there’s so much to be done. How can we make this world a more just and equal place? But followers of Jesus have not been called to “fix the world”, but simply to be people who do justice in an unjust world....

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There are more high school seniors today who would say they “never” attend religious services than in the last 50 years. Most of us care deeply about the faith of our children and grandchildren, but we’re not sure what to do about it. Simply making the world a more “Christian” place with Christian values won’t get the job done. What we need to do is become a more faithful witness to God’s Kingdom...

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Now the Church Stories belong to us. We are living the next chapter. But we are not the authors of the story. God is the one writing the story. . . . This is not a story about you. My life is not a story about me. All of life is a Jesus Story. . . . But that doesn’t mean that our lives are meaningless. Because God is so good. He invites us into His story. And He lets us be a part of writing the st...

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When Jesus sent His disciples out to do ministry, He sent them out two-by-two. This is something we see as a regular practice for the Early Church as well. Ministry is something we see in the New Testament as a communal act. Some scholars point out that perhaps the reason that Jesus sent the disciples in pairs was so that people in towns and villages could see the Kingdom in action. This Kingdom i...

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A community centered on interactive life with God, is a community centered in prayer. One thing that is evident in the life of the Early Church is the surprising power of prayer. In Acts 12, Peter is arrested, and the Church gathers to pray for him to be released. Miraculously he is set free from prison, but the Church is not expecting this. When he shows up at the meeting place, they are convince...

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The next surprising move of the Spirit is that God has extended the Kingdom beyond the Jews/Samaritans. The Samaritans were enemies of the Jews, but they at least had once been Israelites. With the inclusion of Cornelius, a gentile man, God was reconciling all ethnicities into the family of God. And then in Antioch we see the first picture of a multi-ethnic Church. Wherever the Holy Spirit is at w...