God Cares About Community
Here's the central message this morning: God cares.
The Bible teaches us that God cares for individuals and the communities formed by their relationships. Why else would God's Word contain so many names? He knows and cares about you and me, and ur families, and our church. He knows our names. He has our names written in His books (and on His hands - see Isaiah 49:16.
The church is people, made new by the Spirit of God through faith in Jesus, brought into relationship with God and with each other in a living community. That's what Jesus died to create, and that's what He is building. That's what He cares about.
I pray that we will see our church that way - today, and all the time. That we will see each other as people God loves, and as members of the body of Christ who share a common life together.