We all love our church family. That goes with saying. We care and pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ. We feel cared for and comfortable at Sunday services, and that’s good, that’s part of God’s plan for us. But the Scripture shows us that another part of God’s plan for us is when he “plops” new people into our lives. New people, with big questions about life, new acquaintances, who are seeking answers to help them make sense out of what sometimes seems like a crazy mixed up world. At first we might be a little hesitant, a little anxious about facing and answering the questions that these people have for us. But when we prayerfully begin to share the Gospel with them and their questions begin to be answered we are blessed, for we are reminded that without Christ in our lives we can become a bit uncertain too. But when our Lord enters our lives the uncertainty begins to melt away. We see that while our culture promotes rational persuasion as a path to Enlightenment we live in what the world calls the irrational love, mercy and grace of the cross of Christ. And it’s this grace of God in our lives that inspires us to ask ourselves, “Am I satisfied with things the way they are?” It challenges us to question the status quo of our world and as St. Paul urges us in Romans’ 12:2 not to “conform to the pattern of this world because God’s ways are far above our ways.” Another way that we are blessed by living under God’s grace and sharing the Gospel with those whom we meet in our daily lives is that our passions are released. A famous philosopher once wrote, “I’ll only believe in a god who knows how to dance.” Apparently, he or she never read Psalm 30, Psalm 149 and Psalm 150 or read about King David dancing before the Lord. Therefore, let your passions out. Like King David, allow the Spirit to move you, whether it be dance, drama, song videos, music or any of the visual arts. Allow the Spirit to use you to worship God and to communicate the Gospel of Christ to each other and to the world around us. Communicate the Gospel to those whom God has “plopped” into our lives. It’s part of God’s plan for us. So, let us embrace it… let us live it. -- Pastor Mike | 
