Coming Up This Weekend

This coming weekend we're going to change things up a bit. It's one of four weekends of the year with an extra Sunday, and we're experimenting with experimenting a bit on those weekends. The message will still be on "The Story of God," but we will not have our usual stations this weekend. We will, however, celebrate Communion as a response to a message on "Sacrifice." Our plan right now is to pass the Communion plates, so that will also be different than our usual practices.

I'm also looking forward to the team that will be leading worship at the Woodbury campus. Justin and the Fusion worship band will be leading us. Fusion is our mid-week high school ministry at the Woodbury campus. One of the things I love about our church is how many youth serve in ministries at both campuses.

Story is Fundatmental

Michael Horton in The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way:

A modern myth is that we outgrow stories. When someone asks us to explain who we are, we tell a story. Furthermore, we interpret our personal stories as part of a larger plot. Who are we? Why are we here? Where are we going? What’s the point? Is there a God and if so can we know him? Why is there evil in the world?

...The Christian answers these big questions by rehearsing the story of the triune God in creation, the fall of the creatures he made in his own image, the promise of a redeemer through Israel, and the fulfillment of all types and shadows in the incarnation, life, death, resurrection, ascension, and return of Jesus Christ.

The Apostles’ and Nicene creeds are not just a list of key doctrines; they are a confession in the form of a story, our shared testimony to the most significant facts of reality.