Every Monday night, after we meet up for dinner at a local pub called 1860's, we have a group of friends over for community group at our place. It's become an amazing time of fellowship, hilarious games and digging into the truth of the Gospel.
Our group tonight was perhaps the biggest one yet! We had 15 people over, including Todd and myself. I love how our group is growing and changing-- we started out as mostly married couples, a few singles and one family. Now we've got 2 single guys, 3 single girls, 1 engaged girl with a fiance serving in Iraq, 1 married girl who's husband is out of town in school till the end of the summer, 2 newlywed couples, and 2 couples who've been married for 5 years, one of which is prego with their first baby! We have ALL stages of life and experience and it's so cool to interact with everyone and hear so many completely different perspectives.
There are two other community groups in addition to the one that Todd and I lead; they meet on Tuesday and Wednesday night in different areas of the city. As a church, we've been going through a book/video study called Vintage Jesus, taught by Mark Driscoll, an Acts 29 pastor in Seattle. Since we have a lot of relatively new believers and people from all different church backgrounds and upbringings, we decided to take the summer to focus on the person and work of Jesus, so that regardless of how we grew up or what we've been through, we can all be reminded of the truth who Jesus is and how we should be walking with Him. It's been a great study that's invoked a lot of good, honest discussion-- and reminded us all of our daily need for Jesus and the gospel of grace.
I am SO grateful for our gospel community. And I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone in our group (especially the girls!) better as we continue to do life together.
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