The sermon from this past Sunday can be found here. We've also upgraded our format from WMA to MP3 so that it can be listened to on a wider variety of audio platforms. This will also help us with our efforts to get the sermons posted up on iTunes as a subscribable podcast.
Being a church plant means we get to figure all this stuff out on our own, for the first time. We're having a lot of fun!
I started telling the story of Mercy Hill by talking about its first chapter, one that focused on “imagination” and “development.”
I ended my last essay asking you to “imagine the Church” as the redeemed people of God compelled by His goodness and grace to live sent lives and to bear their cross wherever He might lead them.
In the movie, Gladiator, when the Emperor Marcus asked the General, Maximus, to speak of the “dream that is Rome,” he did so in a whisper because anything more than that seemingly could destroy the dream itself.
In the case of the Church, it is founded on the lives and doctrine of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone (Eph. 2:20).
On Mercy Hill's virtual community network (The City), Phil Henry recently posted a short essay on the calling he has as a church planter, and the nature of the work of church planting for the people involved in Mercy Hill's initial startup phase.
Click here to read that article.
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