Title: A Jesus Community (Part 1)
Scripture: Luke 6:12-26
Speaker: Tim Spanburg, TimS@ChristCommunityKC.org

>> A Community of Prayer

"Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren...People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining power."
- Eugene Peterson

"A congregation is composed of people, who, upon entering a church, leave behind what people on the street name or call them. A church can never be reduced to a place where a person is labeled. It can never be a place where gossip is perpetuated. Before anything else, it is a place where a person is named and greeted, whether implicitly or explicitly, in Jesus’ name. A place where dignity is conferred." - Eugene Peterson