Filed under: Community, faith, Love, Serve | Tags: Indianapolis, Indy Metro Church, Jesus Christ, normal
For a while I’ve wanted to share a few thoughts on generosity, the church, and Indy Metro culture. While it’s still raw and fluid, friend and Indy Metro leader Parke Ladd (Visit his blog, Love {All} People, for this and other great posts) and I sat down together to discuss some of this as we head into the Advent season.
To simplify, I’ve broken up into a series of posts and invite you’re participation:
Parke: IndyMetroChurch has been around for 3 years now. What’s been the response to what some might call just another church in downtown Indianapolis? What’s changed? Has there been an impact?
Aaron: It’s evolving. 3 years is a long time, and we are so different today than we were 3 years ago. We have learned so much the past few years, and we don’t even know what to do with all the info. People looking in from the outside may not see much, but the Lord is doing some inspiring things here in Indy.
When I look around and see the people from all sorts of unique backgrounds, it just stirs my soul. I look around and we have single men and women from marginalized backgrounds, living in poverty, yet still worshiping and grateful for every breath they have. We have urban professionals meeting with and sharing life with impoverished, young couples and homeless men and women walking off the street for a coffee and a bite to eat. We have newly married couples and couples who have been married for 40 years. We have college students, high school students, and babies who don’t even know what a student is. All these different backgrounds, coming together as one, crying out praises to the Lord, coming to know who he is…just hits me in a way that I cannot describe.
It’s His Church. He is at work here in Indy. We couldn’t have done this as leaders on our own. We talked about it, but the Lord is doing it. As I shared a few weeks ago from 1 Corinthians 3:6, “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.” Spiritual disciplines are us doing what we are to do so only God can do what only He can do. God is making it grow! The lives that are being changed in response to the Gospel are all so different.
We would love to read your thoughts on what you think normal Christianity should look like according to the Scriptures?
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Comment by Cialis March 7, 2010 @ 5:59 am