We are in a series focusing on North Suburban's Vision Statement which exclaims:
"As a living body of Jesus Christ, our vision at North Suburban Mennonite Church is to be a Christ-centered community, embodying Christ-like compassion, living with Christ-led courage"
Our focus on Christ-centered community is expanded in the following statement:
Being Community
To be a Christ-centered community, we will be a committed, nurturing Anabaptist community, which celebrates our unity in Christ in the midst of the diversity of God's family. We will support each other in our spiritual, human and material needs. We will challenge each other to faithful living. We will maintain open communication with each other in a spirit of love and respect. We will commit to spiritual discipline to further our relationship with God.
The message of this Sunday focuses on a promise that we make to one another, namely that we are "a committed, nurturing community." In exploring Acts 2: 42-47 and Acts 4: 32-35 as a basis for understanding our promise to each other, we discover that such commitment to be nurturing does not derive out of our own desire, but grows out of our worship of God, our extending hospitality, our being generous, and living lives of witness.
Link to Message: Being a committed, nurturing community
We begin a new series in 2014 focusing on North Suburban's Vision Statement which exclaims:
"As a living body of Jesus Christ, our vision at North Suburban Mennonite Church is to be a Christ-centered community, embodying Christ-like compassion, living with Christ-led courage"
Our focus on Christ-centered community is expanded in the following statement:
Being Community
To be a Christ-centered community, we will be a
committed, nurturing Anabaptist community, which celebrates our unity in Christ
in the midst of the diversity of God's family. We will support each other in
our spiritual, human and material needs. We will challenge each other to
faithful living. We will maintain open communication with each other in a
spirit of love and respect. We will commit to spiritual discipline to further
our relationship with God.
The message from this Sunday focuses on exploring that we are not merely centered in the ways of Jesus, but in fact are in relationship with Christ Jesus, and centered in the One who is the Living Lord. And in being centered in him we are a life-giving community in the world identifying with Jesus in such a way that we are human in the world the way he was human.
Link to Message: Being Community: Being a community centered in Jesus Christ
