Filed under: Community, faith, Leadership | Tags: church planting, eastside, Indianapolis, Indy Metro Church, Jesus
This naturally led to lots of conversation over the past few months as a church family in how focused we are together. Are we focused on the hundreds of thousands of people in Indianapolis far from Jesus? What about the thousands of people seeking spiritual answers throughout Indianapolis who haven’t experienced a Gospel-centered loving and serving community of believers?
Consider this analogy: Imagine how silly it sounds if a father were to spend hours every week teaching his son how to drive, taking his son to get his license, picking out the perfect car, gassing it up and then parking it in the driveway and throwing away the keys.
That is what happens if we spend countless hours equipping you and then not taking steps for us a church to “leave the drive way.” Unfortunately, that has been dubbed as “normal” for many followers of Jesus and church. Being on mission with God to love our neighbors and point people towards Jesus often get lost in our beliefs of who and what God is.
This past Sunday, I announced our commitment to enter into a 40 days of prayer and fasting as a community beginning September 1st focused on starting a second weekly public gathering for Indy Metro Church on the eastside of Indy (Catch the podcast at Indymetro.org). The neighborhoods of Irvington, Emerson Heights, Community Heights, and Little Flower are among the most densely populated in the city and together represent a multi-generational, multi-ethnic, socioeconomically urban community with great opportunity for the Gospel.
Whether you’re close or far and you would like to receive our follow up mailer on this 40 Days of Prayer please send your snail-mail address to: Carrie@indymetro.org.
The only thing we are committing to “do” is pray together to see if a shared burden and vision emerge among our community. As a pastor, it is an odd-mix of both excitement and anxiety as we attempt to gain clarity together. Appreciate your prayers as we start this journey!
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