Doing Life Together - Theory and Practice
June 17, 2009
By Linda Rae
For the past two months we at North Shore Alliance Church have been walking through a sermon series entitled “Life Together”. We have heard and learned the theory of what it might look like to be a people who do life together. The topics covered expressed our desire to be a people of prayer, of forgiveness, of spiritual friendship, of the Spirit, of holiness, of interdependence, of healing and of submission. (All of these sermons are available online, just in case you missed them!)
I feel as if this week God was saying to me (and maybe to us), “Linda, what you have heard and learned these past weeks of this theory of life together, you need to put it into practice.”
This past week I had the opportunity to be a part of several events happening here at the Church. As I have been reflecting on these; I realized that God was providing us opportunities to practice doing life together. It’s exciting to stand back and see how God has been bringing everything together, how God is bringing us together!
On Thursday night, our church family gathered for an evening of worship and prayer – with a specific focus on God’s healing power. We had the chance to come to God with our requests, to believe in faith that God heals and walk through life together with our brothers and sisters in Christ. As we prayed for healing - for our bodies and our hearts, I saw that we were a people of prayer, a people of the Spirit and a people of healing.
This Sunday June 14th, we took a break from our traditional worship service and our Church gathered at Boulevard Park for our 3rd annual NSAC BBQ. As I stood at the top of the hill and looked out over the crowd I was delighted to see our church growing together as a community and a family. There were people of all ages and backgrounds getting to know one another, working together, growing relationships, sharing a meal, playing games and having lots of FUN!! This Sunday we were a people of spiritual friendship and a people of interdependence. A people who do life together!!
We have wrapped up this sermon series and will be moving into a new series for the summer, but let’s not forget all that we have learned. Let’s continue to grow together, to share with one another, to pray for each other, to do life together. With God’s help let’s take this theory and put it into practice, so that we can become a people, a church, who does life together!
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