Core Meeting

So far so God! The Beverly church plant has met for its second time today during the Sunday School hour at the church the lead pastor works as an assistant and the church that is supporting us. We call them our Mother church. Last week we had 31 people and this week 19 people. We are aiming for 100 people before we start in Sept. / 2008. We talked about the mission statement last week...which is "To glorify God by leading people to become fully devoted followers of Christ who are catalyst of change and examples of human goodness." That is it.. We are going to be laser focus on being that. It is more about being, than doing...The doing always follows the being..so if we are being the right kind of person...than we will do the right kind of things...That is where our core values come in...today we talked about the first core value..."A Caring Community"...the first sub point under that is Loving Relationships...so we talked about LOVE...if we don't have unconditional, sacrificial love as our driving motivation for life..people turn into projects and become part of a religious agenda where we trying to put another notch in our spiritual belt by leading them to Christ...we agree that we are going to love no matter what...no what if they accept our Jesus or our church or whatever...we are going to love without looking for returns...we have to be intentional and purposeful as God was when he sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to the earth to die for our sins so that we can be restored to relationship with God and become fully reflective of the character of God in the part of the world that we live in...Stay tuned for next weeks core group meeting update!!!!!!!!!!