A Few Highlights from the Clarity One Year Anniversary Party...
1. I honored the team that moved from PA almost two years ago. I gave them each a hammer with their name and this scripture on it...
Luke 14:28-33 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish....’ In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples."
They have each counted the cost and have been faithful through great risk and sacrifice to do what God has called us to do.
2. I gave smooth stones to everyone there as a reminder of three things... as a memorial for how they have served to launch this church, to teach us about this truth... 1 Peter 2:5 - "You, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ," and as a reminder that God is developing them personally, their character, smoothing the rough edges into the image of Christ.
3. We CELEBRATED a bunch of things... survival (amazing that we are alive and still love each other), growth spiritually and numerically, depth (taking root below), healthy foundations (to build upon), forming as a family, miraculous financial provision, and most of all, God!
4. We PRAYED the Lord’s Prayer, for miraculous growth over this next year both spiritually and numerically, for healthy and thriving disciples that multiply, and for fullest joy in Jesus.
THAT PEOPLE WILL CLEARY SEE AND KNOW GOD... AND THAT WE WOULD GLORIFY GOD!
