Title: Becoming Together
Reference: 2 Peter 1:12-15
Speaker: Jacob Vangen, JacobV@cckc.church

The greatest thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It is the person you become. ~ Dallas Willard

– We live as a family together.

– We practice the way of Jesus together.

Spiritual Formation is our continuing response to the reality of God’s grace shaping us into the likeness of Jesus Christ, through the work of the Holy Spirit, in the community of faith, for the sake of the world. ~ Jeffrey Greenman, Life in the Spirit

– We display the beauty of the Kingdom together.

The only hermeneutic of the gospel, is a congregation of men and women who believe it and live by it.

A Christian congregation is thus a body of people with gratitude to spare, a gratitude that can spill over into care for the neighbor. And it is of the essence of the matter that this concern for the neighbor is the overflow of a great gift of grace and not, primarily, the expression of commitment to a moral crusade…It will only be by movements that begin with the local congregation in which the reality of the new creation is present, known, and experienced, and from which men and women will go into every sector of public life to claim it for Christ, to unmask the illusions which have remained hidden to expose all areas of public life to the illumination of the gospel.

But that will only happen as and when local congregations renounce an introverted concern for their own life, and recognize that they exist for the sake of those who are not members, as sign, instrument, and foretaste of God's redeeming grace for the whole life of society. ~ Lesslie Newbigin