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June 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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Amazing Stories – Mission Drop
Sycamore Creek Church
Mark 1:1-11 & Acts 2:38-41
Tom Arthur
June 24, 2012 

Peace Friends!

What’s your life mission?  Are you on a mission?  Or are you just plodding along each day reacting to whatever comes your way?  Being on a mission adds a deep sense of purpose to your life.  Many of us wander around aimlessly because we haven’t signed up for a mission.

I remember the first deep sense of mission I received in life.  I was in a class in college called “African American Experience.”  We were watching a Dateline undercover investigation of racism in Chicago. Not the deep south.  North. Chicago. Midwest.  Big city.  Two guys, one black and one white, went around town with hidden cameras and interacted with the same people and situations.  They both went to a used car salesman.  The white guy was given a “rock bottom” price $1500 cheaper than the black guy.  They both went to a department store.  The white guy was given great service.  The black guy was followed around the store by a sales associate who didn’t talk to him.  They both went to rent the same apartment.  The landlord was courteous to the black guy who went first, but when the white guy asked about the neighborhood, the landlord said, “It’s OK, but it’s going downhill.  I showed it to ‘one of them’ earlier today.”  I came out of that class furious, with a righteous anger I had never experienced before.  In that moment God signed me up for a mission: to make right the injustice I had just seen.  Later on I gave that mission a name: racial and economic reconciliation.

What’s your mission?  Today we’re in the middle of a series called Amazing Stories.  We’re looking at some of the lesser known but still amazing stories in the Bible.  There are a lot of different stories in the Bible about being on a mission.  Today I want to look at a story of the beginning of Jesus’ mission.  And it’s a mission that we all can join.  It’s the amazing story of baptism.  Let’s read it.

Mark 1:1-11 NLT
Here begins the Good News about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God.
In the book of the prophet Isaiah, God said, 

“Look, I am sending my messenger before you,
and he will prepare your way.
He is a voice shouting in the wilderness:
‘Prepare a pathway for the Lord’s coming!
Make a straight road for him!’”  

This messenger was John the Baptist. He lived in the wilderness and was preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had turned from their sins and turned to God to be forgiven.  People from Jerusalem and from all over Judea traveled out into the wilderness to see and hear John. And when they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River. His clothes were woven from camel hair, and he wore a leather belt; his food was locusts and wild honey. He announced: “Someone is coming soon who is far greater than I am — so much greater that I am not even worthy to be his slave.   I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit!”

One day Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and he was baptized by John in the Jordan River.  And when Jesus came up out of the water, he saw the heavens split open and the Holy Spirit descending like a dove on him.  And a voice came from heaven saying, “You are my beloved Son, and I am fully pleased with you.”

Here we see Jesus joining the mission of God.  Have you ever seen one of those spy movies where one spy drops a case or bag or box or envelope in one spot for another spy to pick up and run with the mission?  That’s kind of what’s happening here.  John the Baptist is making a mission drop with Jesus.  Jesus is picking up the package (or going under the water) and running with the mission.

Now this story by itself doesn’t tell us much about the amazing character of this mission.  For that we have to look elsewhere.  One great place is in a sermon that Peter, one of Jesus’ fellow “spies”, preaches after Jesus has ascended (it’s the same sermon that Gaelen McIntee preached on a couple of weeks ago on graduation Sunday).  Let’s take a look at parts of that sermon and we’ll see that the character of the mission of God is closely related to the character of water itself.  Maybe that’s why baptism is done with water.

Death: Acts 2:38 NLT
Peter replied, “Each of you must turn from your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Water is a dangerous thing.  Water can mean death.   This past week I took my 19-month-old son to the tot swim at the Holt Jr. High. He had never seen or been in a pool before.  He was naturally anxious and nervous as we stepped down into the pool.  For about the first thirty minutes he had a choke hold on me and wouldn’t even consider letting go.  He had a healthy respect for the dangerous situation he was in.  Should he let go, I think he instinctually knew that things would not turn out well (of course, as his daddy, I would do all I could to never let that happen).  Water is death.

When we sign up for the mission of God by being baptized, something in us has to die.  We have to turn from our sins.  This is called repentance.  You have to give up every other mission you’re on to join this one. It’s no good to think you can be on two missions.  You can’t.  If you’re going to join God’s mission, all other missions in your life must be put to death in the waters of baptism.  This doesn’t mean that you no longer care about other things.  It means that you now see all things you care for through the lens of the mission of God.

The mission of God is characterized first by dying to self, repenting, and turning toward God.

Cleansing: Acts 2:38 NLT
Peter replied, “Each of you must turn from your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

One of the important uses of water is to clean dirty things.  This past week I had drywallers working in my basement.  I was amazed at the speed with which they worked.  They put up seven rooms of drywall and a hallway in a day and a half.  One time I went down to see how things were going, and one of the guys was putting screws in a piece of dry wall on the ceiling while a fine dust was showering down on top of him.  Later that day when they left, he said to me, “I’ll give you an ‘air’ hand shake because my hands are so dirty and dusty.”  I looked at his hands and was glad he didn’t want to shake my hand.  He was dustier than I had seen anyone in a long time.  I’m sure when he got home he immediately jumped in the shower to wash away all that dust, and when he got out of the shower, I’m sure he felt like a new man.  Water cleanses.

When you sign up for the mission of God by being baptized, you die to the sin in your life and you are cleansed from it.  The mission of God is characterized by forgiveness, God’s forgiveness of our sins, and our forgiveness of others’ sins against us.  Just as water cleans the hands after a long day of working, so too does baptism clean our souls and make us pure before God.

The mission of God is characterized by the forgiveness of sins.

Life – New life through Union with Christ: Acts 2:38 NLT
Peter replied, “Each of you must turn from your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Water is life.  Have you ever run out of water and been unable to get water for an extended period of time?  There’s an amazing survival story about a guy named Aron Ralston that’s told in a movie titled 127 Hours.  Aron was hiking by himself in slot canyons out west when a boulder fell on him and pinned his hand to the side of the canyon.  He was pinned there for 127 hours before freeing himself by cutting his own forearm off.  Public Service Announcement: The biggest mistake he made in this whole ordeal was that he was hiking by himself and he hadn’t told anyone where he was going.  So how was he going to survive?  Almost miraculously there was no bleeding, so Ralston really had to confront one major obstacle: how could he stay alive until someone found him.  What’s your number one problem in this situation?  Besides staying warm, it’s water.  You can live for days or weeks without food. But you can only go a fraction of that time without water.

Water is life, and the waters of baptism give you new life in Jesus.  If we die in the waters of baptism, then we die with Jesus.  But when we come up out of the water, we also join in the resurrection of Jesus.  Our dead dry bodies are given new spiritual life.  We are in a very real sense, reborn.

Life – Holy Spirit: Acts 2:38 NLT
Peter replied, “Each of you must turn from your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

There’s another sense in which we are given new life in the waters of baptism.  We are given the gift of the Holy Spirit.  What exactly is the Holy Spirit?  The Holy Spirit is God’s presence working in you (transformation) and through you (ministry to others).  God’s love being made real in your life.  God’s friendship helping you to learn new habits and continue to turn from all those old ones.  Because even though we’re cleansed and forgiven of our sins in the waters of baptism, those old habits continue to intrude on the mission of God.  They’re like old enemy spies that keep showing up at inopportune times.  Except the difference is that God’s presence, God’s love, God’s friends, God’s Holy Spirit walks with you in a new and powerful way helping you to overcome those old habits and sins.  As one preacher has said, “Sin remains but it does not reign” (John Wesley).

The mission of God is characterized by new life in the waters of baptism.

Community – Acts 2:41 NLT
Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church — about three thousand in all.

What do all these things have in common: soda, tea, coffee, beer, wine, juice?  There’s probably a lot of things that they have in common but here are two that are pertinent to our discussion this morning: they’re mostly water, and they’re best shared with friends.  Water is something that community gathers around.  We gather around it when we choose where to live.  We gather around it at the table, in a restaurant, at the café, in a coffee shop, and around the communion table in worship.

Water is community, and in the waters of baptism you join the community called the church.  Baptism is the door to the church.  Now the church gets a lot of negative press in the world these days, some of it earned, but at its most fundamental level, the church is the community of friends seeking to follow Jesus.  It’s a community on a mission, and that mission is best done with spiritual friends.

The mission of God is characterized by the community you join in the waters of baptism.

So there’s only one question left for you today:

Will you join the mission of God?

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After Relevance

November 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Call & Response

I was wandering around Faith & Leadership checking out articles the other day. Timothy Larsen’s article “More Relevant Than Thou,” which he wrote earlier this year, caught my attention, because I had just had a heated discussion with a colleague about the word “relevant.” I’m the second pastor of a ten-year-old UMC church plant and we’re supposed to be relevant, but the word sounds so cliché to my ears. Every hip new church today and even some old stodgy ones advertise that they are relevant.

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20 Years Deep – SCC’s Mission

October 18, 2010 By

20 Years Deep – SCC’s Mission
Sycamore Creek Church
October 17, 2010
Psalm 1

Peace, Friends!

Today we begin a six week series called 20 Years Deep.  That’s a kind of strange name.  What does “20 Years Deep” mean?  Well, 20 Years Deep is SCC’s capital campaign to celebrate ten years and plan for ten years.  We’re going to be looking back and celebrating the work that God has done at the “Creek” over the last ten years and looking forward to the work that God will do in the next ten years.  On November 7th, SCC will celebrate our ten-year anniversary.  The Creek will be ten years deep.  How deep will the creek be in ten more years?  Today we begin this series by looking at SCC’s mission.  We’ll continue in the coming weeks by exploring SCC’s ten-year vision and our core values.  Along the way we’ll take time to celebrate our ten-year birthday and the results of our capital campaign as we seek to raise $500,000 over the next three years to put us in a good place to own a building.  So let’s begin with the mission of SCC.

Ten years ago SCC began with a theme verse.  Psalm 1:3.  I’d like to take a look again at the verse and the psalm as a whole.

Psalm 1 (NRSV)

1 Happy are those who do not take the advice of the wicked,
Or take the path that sinners tread,
or sit in the seat of scoffers,

2 But their delight is in the law of the LORD,
And on his law they meditate day and night.

3 They are like trees planted by streams of water,
Which yield their fruit in its season,
And their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do they prosper.

4 The wicked are not so,
But are like chaff that the wind drives away.

5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked will perish.

This is God’s teaching for us today.  Thank you, God!

Psalm 1 presents two ways of living.  The way of death and the way of authentic life in Christ.  The way of death is fairly obvious, so what I want to look at today is the way of authentic life in Christ, because that’s SCC’s mission: to ignite authentic life in Christ.  Let’s look more closely at verse three:

3 They are like trees planted by streams of water,
Which yield their fruit in its season,
And their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do they prosper.

Ignite Connection

There are three parts to this verse: planting, fruit, and leaves.  These three things lead to prosperity.  SCC begins its mission by igniting connection – by planting our roots near the streams of water.  In a conversation with a Samaritan woman at a well in which Jesus asks her for a drink of water, Jesus says, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water” (John 4:10, NRSV).  Jesus is the Living Water that we seek to plant the roots of our life near for life.

Notice that the action here is passive.  The trees are planted.  They don’t plant themselves.  The Hebrew word here is actually literally “transplanted.”  We are transplanted from the dry dusty desert of the way of death into the dark moist soil near the living water.  It is not so much, then, that we ignite connection or authentic life in Christ, but that we are ignited by God’s Spirit.  We are transplanted near the Living Water.

The Message, a paraphrase of the Bible, gets at this dynamic well in John the Baptist’s teaching.  John says, “I’m baptizing you here in the river. The main character in this drama, to whom I’m a mere stagehand, will ignite the kingdom life, a fire, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out” (Luke 3:16, The Message).  Authentic life in Christ is connecting to the power of the Holy Spirit at work in us.  That power ultimately changes us from the inside out.

Here at Sycamore Creek Church we are a come-as-you-are kind of church.  We don’t want to put a lot of obstacles in your way to igniting this kind of connection.  Come in comfortable clothes.  Come with all your questions and even your doubts.  Come without having your life all together.  Come and be transparent and vulnerable.  We seek then to be part of God’s work in your life igniting and connecting you to God and other people.

One of the ways we do this is by making sure that the guests who visit us on a Sunday morning experience a warm welcome.  I’ve been to several churches lately.  In one church I wasn’t greeted by anyone more than the greeters at the door.  I even stood by myself after the service for quite a while all by myself.  I’m somewhat introverted and it was so awkward standing there by myself that I got tired of being introverted and went and talked to someone myself.

Contrast that experience with another church I visited recently.  As I walked in the door, the greeter said, “Welcome.  I’m so glad you’re here.”  The usher then said to me, “Welcome, I’m so glad you’re here.”  At the time of the service where the pastor invited us to meet the people around us so that no one went unnoticed, the middle-aged guy next to me turned to me and introduced himself.  He asked me a couple of questions and then introduced his wife.  As I sat next to him in the service, he leaned over and whispered to me, “That’s my son on the drums.”  After the service was over, he greeted me again and said he was glad I was there.  You know what made that experience feel like I was welcome?  Yeah, the door greeters and ushers were great, but it was that middle-aged guy who sat next to me that made me feel like I was welcome at that church.  He ignited in my heart a sense of connection to God and others at that church.  That’s the kind of church I want SCC to be.  Will you help me make sure this church ignites that kind of connection?

SCC exists to ignite connection between where you are and where God and others are.

Ignite Growth

So we’ve looked at the first part of this verse: the planting or connecting of our lives with the Living Water that is Jesus.  Let’s look at the second part: they “yield their fruit in its season.”  SCC doesn’t just stop at igniting connection, we seek to help ignite growth in Christ in you, to yield your fruit in the right season.  Jesus said, “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10, NRSV).

Abundant life.  That sounds great to me.  What does Jesus mean by abundant life?  It could also be asked, “What does prosperity mean in this psalm?”  Are we talking about the way that our culture measures prosperity?  Are we talking about the “fruit” of fame and fortune that our culture seeks?

Perhaps these questions can be answered simply by asking another question: “Was Jesus prosperous?”  By all the standards of today, Jesus wasn’t very prosperous.  He was a homeless teacher who had little to no money, no real political influence, and was deserted by his closest followers when he was sentenced to death by the Roman Empire.  You probably wouldn’t sell a lot of books if the title was How To Lose Friends and Influence Few.  Jesus wasn’t very prosperous by these kinds of standards.  So what kind of prosperity are we talking about here?

I think the kind of fruit, the kind of growth, that Psalm 1 is getting at is an internal prosperity.  It’s the prosperity of yielding the fruit of the character of Christ in your heart, mind, soul, and body.  That kind of fruit sometimes take pruning, and pruning is usually pretty painful.  Paul describes this kind of fruit.  He says, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23, NRSV).  Anyone ever find the growth of patience in your life easy?  How about self-control?  Yeah.  Pruning is painful sometimes.

How is this kind of growth, this kind of prosperity, ignited within each of us?  Psalm 1 points to certain practices of prosperity: Bible study, prayer/meditation, and community.  These are the kind of practices that will produce the growth of the prosperity of the character of Christ in each of us, and the practices that will sustain us when we share in the sufferings of Christ that are the inevitable pruning that takes place in our lives.  Authentic life in Christ is practicing the way Jesus practiced so that when life beats you down, you respond the way Jesus responded – proactive and selfless love of others.

The primary way that we ignite growth in our church is through small groups.  You all may think that because I’m the pastor I don’t need a small group to grow.  You’re wrong!  I absolutely need one.  I’m not just in a small group that I lead, I’m in one that I don’t lead too.  Our little group is an eclectic bunch.  We’ve got a wide range of ages and personalities.  I learn all kinds of stuff from this group.  A couple of weeks ago I was wrestling with a moral dilemma in my life.  I was in a car accident back in July.  The car I was in was rear ended by someone else.  I did not intend to lie to the insurance agent of the guy who hit us, but I neglected to tell her that I had some back pain before the accident.  I think this was something of a sin of omission.  She never asked so I never told.  Well, my conscience didn’t settle well with this, so I talked to my small group and we decided that it would be best for me to do the hard thing and offer that information even though she didn’t ask.  You know what, I told her about my previous back pain, and I while it was hard to do, I felt a huge sense of peace after I had.  I need my small group to help ignite within me growth in the character of Christ even when it is painful growth.

So here at SCC we’re not satisfied with just being a come-as-you-are kind of church.  We also want to be a come-as-you-are-but-not-stay-as-you-are kind of church so that the Holy Spirit can begin to ignite growth in the character of Christ in your life.  Expect to grow at SCC.  Expect it to be fun sometimes and painful sometimes.

SCC exists to ignite growth in the character of Christ in each one of us.

Ignite Service

We’ve looked at the first two parts of Psalm 1:3 – “trees planted by streams of living water that yield their fruit in its season.”  There is one more part: “Their leaves do not wither.”  What function do leaves play on a plant?  They are the part of the plant that turns sunlight into usable energy to produce more fruit to reproduce more plants.  Leaves help the tree to continue to produce more energy and more fruit!

In the same way, SCC exists to help ignite not only connection and growth but also to ignite service in each of our lives.  Service to the church, our community, and the world.  Authentic life in Christ is inviting others to bear the fruit of this new abundant life.  This mission is all over the New Testament.  Jesus’ last words to his disciples in the book of Matthew were, “Go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19).  The most famous verse of the Bible says, “For God so loved the world” (John 3:16).  Yes, God loves you and me, but God also loves the world too.

The theme verse for our capital campaign is Luke 5:4 where Jesus says to Peter, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch” (NRSV).  He goes on to tell Peter that he will fish for people.  SCC seeks to be the kind of church where we ignite going out into the deep waters of service by using the “nets” that we have to invite people into the abundant life of Christ.

If you’ve been on a plane or fly often, what seat do you like to sit in?  I don’t fly very often, but when I do I always prefer the aisle seat.  I get more room to stretch out.  I can come and go as I want without having to negotiate around anyone else.  It’s the seat that most serves me.  But what if I took the seat that least served me and most served someone else?  What if I took the aisle seat.  It has been said that we here at SCC seek to be a window-seat kind of church rather than an aisle-seat kind of church.  We seek to be the kind of church where we want to serve others rather than ourselves.  We take the inconvenient seat so that others can take the convenient seat and be ignited to connect with God and others and be ignited to grow in the character of Christ.  In this way we ignite service in every person who joins us along this journey.

We seek to ignite service in our church, our community, and our world.  I’d like to present a very important opportunity for service in our church.  Currently Kids Creek, our children’s ministry, is in need of some significant people power.  We’re a month or so into the Fall season and we’re still seeking to fill our teaching and assistant teacher positions.  We are in need of two to three teachers or assistant teachers.  Then Kids Creek is also in need of help setting up and tearing down.  Do you know that Bob Flory, the husband of Barb Flory, SCC’s founding pastor, used to come in every Saturday and set up Kids Creek?  Wow!  What a servant!  Well, we haven’t yet found another Bob Flory.  So we’re looking for two to three people willing to be Kids Creek set-up Crew Chiefs to come in early and set-up Kids Creek.  Then we’re also looking for four to five people to be Kids Creek tear-down Crew Chiefs.  On top of this, we’re attempting to switch to a co-op kind of structure where we ask parents to sign-up to help in Kids Creek once a month.  There are some amazing people back in Kids Creek pouring their energy and lives into our children, but we are in need of more.  Do you feel an ignition in your heart to serve in this way?  If so, go right now and tell Julie Soltis.  When you serve in this way, you ignite connection and growth in the lives of our children.

But SCC doesn’t stop by igniting service in the church.  We also seek to ignite service in our community and world.  Back in 2006 pastor Barb Flory, the founding pastor of SCC, asked a question in a sermon series called Ignite.  She asked, “If SCC disappeared today, would we be missed?”  She went on to say that she meant not by one another, but by the community.  Would anyone in the Lansing/Holt area even notice?  She did not give a very positive answer to this question.  She said that she thought SCC would not be noticed.  We desire to be a window-seat church but there is a disconnect between our aspirations and our reality.  How would we answer that question today?  If SCC disappeared today, if we never gathered again as a church, would we be missed?  Not missed by one another, but missed by people outside these four walls?

Here at SCC we want to not only be a come-as-you-are-but-not-stay-as-you-are kind of church but also a come-as-you-are-but-not-stay-as-you-are-so-that-we-can-touch-people-where-they-are kind of church.  The goal of this journey is not about you.  It’s about connecting others to God and one another so that they can grow in Christ and serve even more.

SCC exists to ignite service to the church, the community, and the world!

The Way of Authentic Life in Christ

SCC exists to ignite connection with God and others, to ignite growth in the character of Christ, and to ignite service to our church, community, and world.  20 Years Deep, our capital campaign to celebrate ten and plan for ten is about going deeper into that mission, putting out into the deep waters so that our catch is even greater, about planting people by the streams of living water so that they yield their fruit in its season and their leaves do not wither.  That’s authentic life in Christ.

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A Ten-Year Vision for SCC

April 19, 2010 By

Peace, Friends!

On Sunday, April 18th at our vision meeting I presented five points toward a 10-year vision for SCC.  Let me take a moment and share in brief those five points of vision.

First, we will strengthen the execution of our current core values by following through on the dialogue group must-dos.  Not sure what our core values are?  You can read them on the website here.  We are generally heading in the right direction.  The next four vision points build on strengths that already exist at SCC and expand on our faithfulness in following Jesus.

Second, we will love and serve the poor and poor in spirit in our church and community by building and sustaining diverse friendships through support groups and small groups committing to missions.  SCC is great at collecting items and money, and we can add to this strength by giving our time to show the love of Christ to one another and our community.

Third, we will rework membership and double the navigating members by beginning a process to allow participating members to vote, continuing to encourage Financial Peace University principles, and instituting a yearly Commitment Sunday where members and regular attenders are given the opportunity to grow spiritually by making a financial commitment to SCC’s mission, to ignite authentic life in Christ.

Fourth, we will prepare to own a building by developing a three to five-year capital campaign during our 10-year anniversary this fall.  This capital campaign will have four priorities:

  1. We will tithe (10%) what we receive toward one or more missions;
  2. We will increase our current space to meet current needs (especially the space needs of our youth);
  3. We will pay off the mortgage on the pastor’s house ($116,000);
  4. We will use the rest to prepare to own a building (architect fees, down payment, etc.).

One last way this money may be used is to hire a consultant to help us run this capital campaign.  A capital campaign will put us in a strong place to own a building in three to five years which will help establish our presence in the community and provide stability for long-term growth which is essential to accomplish the fifth vision point.

Fifth, we will plant a church in 10+ years by giving 50-100 members to plant a totally independent church or a site/satellite campus.  This is a natural extension of our mission, and it is in our DNA as a church that was planted by another church.  This will allow us to grow while also staying relatively small and intimate.

The first three vision points which are short-term are pretty clear.  The last two which are long-term are a little less clear, but still clear enough to give us direction for the steps we need to take right now.  It is my hope that these vision points will lift our eyes from the ground that is immediately before us and focus them on the horizon of what God is dreaming for us and calling us to.  If you’d like a more detailed explanation of why I think each of these vision points is where God is leading us, you can find it our my blog here and post questions or comments there.  If you’ve got further questions, feel free to drop me an email.

Psalm 126 says, When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, then we were like those who dream. These five vision points are a dream for SCC.  I believe they are part of God’s dream for SCC.  Will you join the dream?

Peace,
Tom

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