The Blueprints to a Belonging Community— The Sermon on the Mount are a call to be Salt and Light and messengers of the Kingdom. Salt adds flavor, preserves and purifies, while light dispels darkness. We are called to do the same in a world that desperately needs God’s salt and light. This week we will discover our role in God’s Belonging community marketing strategy.

The Preamble to the Blueprints of a Belonging Community— what we call the Beatitudes is the Magna Carta for messed up people. What else would we expect from Jesus? Simply put, they are hope for hopeless messed up people. In order for us to wrap our minds around this new revolutionary view of the Beatitudes we’ve got to re-examine Jesus’ radical words to his followers then and now. If you’re messed up you are also blessed-up.

Jesus' Blueprints for a Belonging Community—his Message on the Mount is the ultimate word concerning belonging in community—God’s Kingdom. His blueprints for belonging are as radical and revolutionary today as they were in the first century. When we truly live out his blueprints for belonging, we quit doing church, we get rid of the status quo religion, and we turn the world right-side-up by going public with Jesus.

The wrap-up message for BELONG helps us recognize and do away with the barriers to true belonging. We do not belong to ourselves but to God, and through him, to his people. At long last, our search for true belonging can have a happy ending. In Christ and among his people, we’re fully known and fully loved.

Active belonging comes with responsibilities and rights. Your rights as BELONG’ERS are all about your leaders/pastors/teachers being like Jesus. You have the Right to Leaders who Feed, Lead, Model, and Plead Like Jesus. Do You Belong?

Active Belonging comes with its own R&R (rights and responsibilities). Belonging in any organization, family, institution, or job has rights and responsibilities. When we actively participate in the Body of Christ we belong. Do you belong?

Joseph, known as the husband of Mary and the Earthly Father of Jesus, is a giant example of those willing to Faithfully serve behind the scenes. Joseph is a Giant of our Faith who obeyed God and served a vital role in the life of Jesus. Praise God for people like Joseph who desire the smile of God more than the applause of men.

What is Wisdom? Solomon is known as the wisest man who ever lived. What does that mean? Of course, true wisdom only comes from understanding and knowing the Plan of God. Allowing God to lead our lives is the only path to true wisdom for each of us personally and for us as a Church.

Because of tragic circumstances, Ruth's entire life changes and she is suddenly thrust into a brand new world. Her only family support is her Mother-in-law, but their connection is one of great love and devotion. As she bravely makes her decision to move forward, her statement of commitment resounds deeply in our hearts: Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. (Ruth 1:16) That was Ruth's statement to her Mother-in-law. Is your statement of commitment to God as strong?

Your family tree is full of stories and legacies. Some good and some not so good. But in a moment, the story can change and leave a legacy that reverberates through the generations. Our series “Family Reunion” continues in this message as we look at the story of Rahab and how a lifetime of unfaithfulness was transformed in an instant, leaving behind a legacy of faith and a lineage that includes Jesus.