None of us think that we are greedy or too materialistic, but most of us think money is a necessary tool to provide the story we want our lives to tell. This is why we think of money as a blessing, and those who are rich in this life as “blessed” or living the “good life”. But when Jesus interacted with those who are rich, He consistently challenged them to stop storing up treasures on earth, but instead to sell their possessions and use them to store up treasures in heaven. Because the story Jesus is telling is one where God generously provides all we need, so we don’t need “bigger barns”. We get to interact with God in being generous as He has been generous to us. When we interact with His generosity, we might become God’s way of providing for others needs.

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Faith is a very misunderstood concept in our world. For many, faith is just a power that helps you get what you want out of God. It’s a tool to insure you can write the story of your life the way you want it too. But that’s not the idea of faith we see in the stories of Jesus’ life. Faith is the way that we align ourselves with the story God is telling. Faith is the crucial ingredient to interactive life with God. In the story of the Centurion we see that Faith is taking Jesus at His word. Like a soldier follows the command of their superior officer, those who live with Jesus as King follow where He leads no matter the command. And when we do this, when we live by faith, we find ourselves caught up in a story bigger than ourselves. We find that impossible things can happen, and our lives can be transformed.

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For the people of Israel during Jesus’ lifetime, their national story was one where they were the “chosen people of God”, and no one else was. But Jesus came to change the story. The story God had been telling since the beginning was God rescuing all of humanity, through interacting with specific people and a specific nation. But the goal was always “all people”. Jesus’ interaction with the Canaanite woman reveals His heart to bring the gospel to all people from all nations and ethnicities. He does this by confronting the deeply imbedded biases and prejudices of His day. When we live an interactive life with God, Jesus too will uncover our own biases and prejudices to draw us to love all people, and to seek out those who are different than us to love them like Jesus.

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For many of us, the story we want our lives to tell heavily involves building a family that we can be proud of, but Jesus introduces a different way to view family. Interactive life with God is life in the family of God. Our greatest allegiance is not to our blood or legal relatives, but to Jesus and those He has made our brothers and sisters. This is why we as a Church are passionate about being family together. From our children’s to student to parent ministries we are convinced no one should raise children alone. Nor should anyone have to grow old alone. We want to help one another.