Living Stones
Growing People, Multiplying Leaders

E38 Blessings through a Christ-Centered Community (CCC)

Week 6 - Supernatural Blessing!

4 years ago

We are doing this series called "Supernatural Blessing" to remind us that in these unprecedented times of uncertainty, God wants us to be settled in His superabundant blessing. He is the God of more than enough! In Jesus' very first miracle of turning water into wine, He demonstrated to us that, in His Kingdom, our best days are always ahead of us and not in the distant past. So, as a church family, let us look forward to the future with great hope, faith, and expectation!

Even though we all want great relationships and great communities for ourselves and for our families, so few people are actually able to achieve this. Why is there such a disconnect between what we desire and what we actually have, in terms of authentic, intimate, godly relationships? The disconnect comes from a failure to set proper expectations for the cost and the rewards of building a Christ Centered Community (CCC). In today's sermon, Pastor Andrew talks about the costs of what it takes to build a CCC and ends the sermon on what is really at stake. Yes, building a CCC is costly and demands that we grow and change, but the rewards and the blessings are absolutely worth it!

Scriptures: Luke 14:31-33

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.