August 2024
This is my new friend. I met her last week.
She tells me that I saved her life.
That seems a little extreme, I think. "You exaggerate, but that's kind," I say.
She says, "No. You saved my life. In 2006 you started something. In 2012 I found it at the lowest point in my life. I was into drugs and drinking, my best friend had just died and I was on a similar path. I was invited to go to the thing (a church) you started and that night the speaker talked about Lazarus, and I wanted to hear more. God reached in and brought me back from the dead. I stayed, fell in love with Jesus, was baptized. I graduated and served there as staff. Now I'm here, where you are today, because of you. You saved my life."
You are in the diffuse network or you support the diffuse network because you believe in the power and the audacity of those who start things (churches); things (churches) that last.
Are you Creating, Sustaining or Pivoting today? It's August and school is back in session. Schedule your triad this month. Make it happen. Nothing could be more important.
The world needs you to start something (a church*). It's what you do. The network is here for YOU.
*church = mission, community + worship = the mystery of Christ
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