What is This For?
Leadership, Shared Purpose, and the Shalom of Christ A meeting can go remarkably well. The agenda is completed, reports are received, decisions are made, and everyone does what they were assigned to…
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Topic: Worship
What Kind of Community Are We Becoming?
Reflect on the relationships and practices that form a faithful community within and beyond the church.
Open to the Spirit’s Future
Receive a future larger than institutional survival and wider than familiar boundaries.
Faithful Enough to Change
Discern what must be carried, changed, repaired, or released under Christ.
How Will We Recognize Faithfulness?
Look beyond easy measures to the recognizable fruit of faithful common life.
What Kind of Community Are We Called to Be?
Notice what kind of community your shared life is forming.
This Church Belongs to Christ
Receive the church as Christ’s, exercising responsibility without anxious ownership.
Who Is in Front of You?
The Ordinary Work of Christian Leadership In Mark 6, Jesus and the disciples are confronted by an enormous crowd. The day is growing late, the people are hungry, and there is nowhere…
Watch and Welcome
for December 24, 2026 Let’s begin with the opening introduction. Tonight we hear the Christmas story through the eyes of the shepherds—some of the first people to receive and carry the news…
Watch for the Unexpected
for December 20, 2026 Opening Prayer Note to leader: this prayer invites the congregation to slow down and notice God’s presence in the ordinariness of this moment. God of unexpected grace,we come…