In this week's newsletter, we want to share how Grace Talk has been so far. Below is a short update from Chris the Outreach Pastor writing on behalf of the Reunion Church team.
We’re now into our 2nd week of Grace Talk and the series is exactly what’s needed for this moment in Reunion Church’s history. Although this has been our go-to series for years within our discipleship and leadership development process, there’s still more to discover about God’s grace. To build a local church, you have to go back to the basics.
This week, those basics were revolving around the concept of how we tend to misuse what God gives us, namely grace itself. From broken sandbags to fasting for spiritual favors, Andrew efficiently unpacked the idea that maybe we should reconsider what we think we know about faith in general. The key passage in this process was the infamous Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5.
It’s here where Andrew keyed into the idea of how working towards grace is a false gospel, while the grace of God has already been worked out by Jesus. In fact, we just receive the final product of grace versus having to manufacture our own knock-off version that doesn’t even come close to the original. For more on that message, check out our podcast linked down below for the Sunday Recap.
And yet as per usual, there’s always a lot going on at Reunion Church. For starters, Andrew and Hannah are continuing the church assessment process as we speak in Denver and learning what it means to be bi-vocational in an all-or-nothing world. Our website has been revamped thanks to the great effort of our team, especially as Amber led that project. Also, word is getting around town about this Grace Talk series and more new people from the area are joining the conversation.
As we begin to enter the 4th quarter of the year, this local community is only going to grow more. This may be week 2 of Grace Talk, but there’s still time to sign up and see what grace really means in your life. We hope to see you there as we keep gathering in grace.
