In our final week of Messiology we want to take all we've learned and put it into real tangible, missional steps we can live out as a community for the good of others.

How do we take a Gospel-fluent message into a culture opposed to it with the nagging fear of rejection and doubts in the back of our mind?

This is our focus in week 3 of our series; Messiology.

In week 1 we culturally exegeted the world that we live in missionally, but what is going on in our own hearts that keeps us from taking what we know and converting it into missiological practice? At the heart of apprehension is the issue of ACCEPTANCE. In a flattened, polarized, consumeristic world, the worst thing you can be is different, counter-cultural, concerned with formation over consumption.

How do we deconstruct a relativistic worldview?

How do we reform what true acceptance looks like?

And how do we firm up the assurance we have in God for ourselves and the good of others?

This is what we're exploring in week 2 of our series; Messiology.

In this opening teaching we will dive into the mess of the world that we have been missionally called to. What is the culture and who are the people we've been called to? When we look at the world today we see a place that is jammed up with polarization, "You're either with me or against me..." It is growing more and more relativistic, flattening all worldviews into one placid view of the world. It's built toward meeting the needs of a consumer culture that wants to know the product they're buying is proficient and proven to give what they want. But this is not the message of the Gospel...

How can we step into the mess of a people who want God their way for their purposes? This is the challenge we pose at the beginning of our series; Messiology.

For House Night 1 we’re examining a process for life and community that maximizes our potential in partnering God to see a move of God in our midst in this new school year. When we Pray Hard, Work Hard, Play Hard, and Rest Hard we set ourselves up to see God do what only He can do, and find ourselves refreshed along the way.

Where has God brought us and what is He bringing us into in the coming here? Check it out here as we wrapped up our final House Night of the school year.

In our final teaching of the semester we look at what the way of Jesus looks like as a community practice.

How do we actually live the way of Jesus? In the first of a two part teaching we will look at what following Jesus looks like in a personal sense through a look at Jesus’ own practice of what we call “spiritual disciplines.”

We live in an age of disconnected spirituality.

For many people, spirituality can me anything or nothing at all. We can live deeply "spiritual" lives, but have no evident difference in our life from that of non-religious people. We tend toward a surface-level faith that just adds church attendance to the practices we participate in alongside everyone else. This works up to a point, but it falls apart when we get to a stage in life where the questions we're asking can't be answered by the answers we've sought or been provided. What does following Jesus look like then?

Tonight we diagnose the disconnect in our following Jesus by looking at the insufficiencies in our discipleship and the ways we mirror the life of the world knowingly or unknowingly.

What comes from following the Way of Jesus?

In a world where we’re constantly looking to the next thing and the potential of a new season we have to ask ourselves the question, “What is the potential in following Jesus’ Way?”

Tonight we begin our final series of the school year looking at that exact thought.

Check out this stand alone teaching from our friend Ladarion Simpson!