This week I’ve been reading through John 1-3 along with our Growth Groups.  This morning, I started reading those chapters in The Message paraphrase, which has one of my favorite verses in John 1:14:

The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.

This is the essense of the vision of CrossPoint Church.  We desire to be just like Jesus and take it to our neighborhood.  It’s easy for churches to become inward-focused and try to keep the status quo and serve each other.  Now while I do believe that is one important aspect of community, it’s not the only concern.  As followers of Christ, we should also desire to be the hands and feet of Jesus and meet the needs (both spiritual and physical) in our community.  Jesus exemplified it for us and we should do everything we can to follow that example.

Each Growth Group will be responisble for a Servant Evangelism event sometime in the next 8 weeks.  I can’t wait to see what God will do when these groups spread God’s love across this county!