Already/Not Yet

When people ask me when the "church" is going to start I get confused at first. They are asking when we are going to have services. I use to look at it that way too, unfortunately we only think of "church" as a building or space and not a group of Christian believers gathered together. I think it first hit me that we were already a church is when Scott Denson celebrated his three years of sobriety with us. On that night Scott said he thanked God for his home church. Back then we had no name and still no building, we only continued to gather in Christ's love. On Tuesday night house worship and Friday night dinners we tell people that our church is already in existence. People want to start coming when we have "services" in January but I want to encourage people to get involved now. We are excited at the ways God's working and how He's bringing people in our midst. As we prepare for launch Sunday on January 18th we want to be mindful of living in the present.