Living Stones
Growing People, Multiplying Leaders

E7 Be Mine

Voices - Week 3

4 years ago

Does God still speak to us today in a personal and intimate way? This is the topic we are exploring in our new series: Voices. God is looking to have a conversation with men and women who are called according to His purpose! Throughout history, the voice of God has transformed, impassioned, and guided those who have consecrated themselves to serve God. He is looking to speak to us. Are we listening?

The Gospel is the greatest love story ever told! From Genesis to Revelation, we see example after example of God’s relentless pursuit to redeem a Bride for His Son, Jesus! The Father uses the language of covenant love to give us a picture of his passionate pursuit for His people. The written Word and the Holy Spirit work in tandem to lead us into a personal, intimate relationship with Jesus! The goal is learning to recognize and respond to your heavenly Father’s voice so you can grow in intimacy with Him. When we take the Holy Spirit out of the equation, we’re left with the letter of the law, which leads to lifeless legalism. In contrast, the language of redemption is all about relationship. “Let me see your face; let me hear your voice. For your voice is pleasant, and your face is lovely.” - Song of Solomon 2:14

Launching in 1981 as just 30 people in a living room in Northwest Indiana, Living Stones has grown into a vibrant multi-generational church family. Stones are a product of God the Creator — formed in nature and no two are alike. As we come to faith in Jesus Christ, scripture tells us that we are like living stones in the hand of God and He is using us to build up a spiritual house. Our foundation was built on the work of nurturing and restoring healthy, biblical marriages. In continuing that mission, everything we do here at Living Stones is centered around loving, healing, and equipping individuals and families to grow into a greater likeness of Christ Jesus! By the Holy Spirit, we exist today to Renew Hearts, Restore Homes, Reform Culture and Reach the Nations with the gospel of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:4-5 ”As you come to him who is the Living Stone — he was rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious — you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house.” We are a family — misfits, hypocrites, creatives, addicts, reformers, over-churched, unchurched, wanderers — each of us a stone, uniquely crafted by the hand of God, made alive through Jesus, and now living by the power of the Holy Spirit. Together, we are Living Stones.