Annual meeting on Sunday

We all convene our annual meeting this Sunday to adopt the 2008 Annual Report, a budget for 2009, and leadership for the new year. Here are excerpts from my submission for the annual report.
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Follow Me. Two words.

That's Jesus' call to us. He doesn't say, "Come join my small group and we'll do a Bible study." Nope. His call is simple and clear. Follow Me...

We learn to love and serve God best in the context of corporate worship gatherings.We convene to encourage each other in enthusiastic, God-focused praise and worship.

Then we need to love and serve fellow believers. That occurs best in the context of small groups. it is where we are known, where we can truly know others and serve their deepest needs. We can't learn those needs in a worship gathering. It's in someone's livng room or kitchen where we learn to put what we know about God and ourselves into action, with help from people who know us and still love us.

But focusing on God and each other does not make us complete disciples of Jesus Christ. Jesus doesn't save us so we can sit around patting each other on the back, congratulating ourselves that we're on our way to heaven. That may be true, but Jesus expects us to pay attention and help the others we find along the road to eternity.

So in any given week, we should be actively prsuing three things: loving and serving God, loveing and serving fellow believers, and loving and serving our fallen world.

Do these three things appear on your calendar every week?