Preacher: Jerry Cisar

A lot of the focus in modern discipleship is on the individual. There are exceptions, of course, but rarely is discipleship taught primarily as a community project. It’s a team sport, not like an aerobics class or a zoom class, but like a baseball team or a football team.

In an aerobics class, it may serve me to be in a class for I might feel more motivated with the group. With baseball, or football, I simply cannot play it without the rest of the team. The church is like the latter and therefore discipleship (training for godliness or Christlikeness) must primarily be a group activity. “Practice the way you play.”

The early church sometimes spoke of gathering on the 8th day of the week. Of course, the last time I checked, there were only 7. But that is the point. What did that term signify for them? How does it inform the purpose of our gathering? How does our gathering inform the rest of our lives?

Join us as we explore some of the symbolic and visual aspects woven into the church’s worship and how they impact the rest of our lives.

Handout: https://gccc-recordings.s3.amazonaws.com/handouts/20240922.pdf