The cross is where beauty and brokenness intersect.
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What would you like to be known for?
None of us will live forever.
Mosaic will not go on forever.
We are definitely not here to perpetuate ourselves or an organization forever.
What will go on forever is the Kingdom of God.
It’s up to us whether we want to be a part of that legacy.
In 1 Thessalonians 1:3 Paul speaks of how the church in Thessalonica is known by their faith, love, and hope.
Specifically the Apostle Paul speaks of their ‘work produced by faith‘ – What does it look like to take the counter-cultural teachings of Jesus seriously? There are great tasks that God has called us all to, but this ‘work’ will not get produced without faith. I may often speak of it in terms of ‘risk-taking’ but for those of you who may be more risk-adverse, allow me to phrase it as ‘live-living’. Again, we all die, but how many of us will truly live a life of faith?
Paul describes a ‘labor prompted by love‘ – What’s intriguing about the idea of labor is it relates to effort, not necessarily results. When I speak to others about Mosaic, people are often in awe of all the things that we have tried to articulate the gospel within the church and outside of it. And with anything worth doing, we’ll never all be on the same page, yet we continue anyways. It takes a huge amount of love and grace to support one another even in the midst of disagreements. What does it look like for us to be known by love?
Finally Paul describes the church as being marked by ‘hope in our Lord Jesus Christ” – We have such an amazing and glorious God what more do we need than what he’s already given to us in Christ? He’s our savior, our lord, our great high priest, our king, our wounded healer, and our hope. He’s our hope amid failure, our hope when we’re let down, our hope when nothing seems to work out right. With this hope we can truly be the church that is satisfied in Him alone, not a person, not an organization, not a program, but in Christ. With this hope we can be the church that isn’t here for us, but is here for the needs of a broken world. Will we go out and be known as hope to the world?
A friend recently made this video that delves into some themes we’ve been exploring together.
