Monday, March 5, 2018

Building community, not just houses


While many of the psalms are individual prayers, Psalm 80 is communal. It reminds us that God’s salvation is not private and individualistic. God saves us into a family – the covenant family of God. God’s plan for blessing and restoring the world involves community.

As hurricane Harvey rebuilding kicks into high gear, where will we seize opportunity to become mini-restoration communities? With organizational prowess, technological know-how, and fierce determination, we have the potential to do a lot of things. But will we be restoration communities along the way? Will we just build houses or will we build transformational relationships? With every task there’s an opportunity to go it alone or to go it together. Let’s choose the latter and build community.

If you missed yesterday’s message you can listen to it here.

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