This is one of those quotes that is so good you don't have to add anything to it to explain it.  It is by Mark Driscoll from his radical reformission book.   He says...

    "Reformission is ultimately about being like Jesus, through his empowering grace.  One of the underlying keys to reformission is knowing that neither the freedom of Christ nor our freedom in Christ is intended to permit us to dance as close to sin as possible without crossing the line.  But both are intended to permit us to dance as close to sinners as possible by crossing the lines that unnecessarially separate the people God has found from those he is still seeking.  To be a Christian, literally, is to be a "little Christ."  It is imperitive that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as misssionaries who are faithful to the Father and his gospel as Jesus was in his own time and place. 

   I am advocating not sin but freedom.  That freedom is denied to many by tradition and theological systems because they fear that some people will use their freedom to sin against Christ.  But rules, regulations, and the pursuit of outward morality are ultimately incapable of preventing sin.  They can only, at best, rearrange the flesh and get people to stop drinking, smoking, and having sex, only to start being proud of their morality.  Jesus' love for us and our love for him are, frankly, the only tethers that will keep us from abusing our freedom, yet they will enable us to venture as far into the culture and into relationships with lost people as Jesus did, because we go with him.

   So reformission requires that God's people understand their mission with razor-sharp clarity.  The mission is to be close to Jesus.  This transformes our hearts to love what he loves, hate what he hates, and to pursue relationships with lost people in hopes of connecting with them and subsequently, connecting them with him.  This actually protects us from sin, because the way to avoid sin is not to avoid sinners but to stick close to Jesus."

Very challenging!!

Sonset Cafe - August 19th

Sean Savage

Wolfe and Kandel

I'm more than excited!!

7pm - music at 8pm

Our Brother Kelvin from "Down Under" will be Speaking (awesome aussie voice)

Bring your friends!!!

Out

Alex.....Tony......Daisy.....Bake

Little Hug Party.....Daisy cant hang!!!

Waffles in the Morning!!

Out!!!

 Romans 5:2-5 - through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

If we have hope in the Lord then we should always preserve in tribulation.  Romans 8:31 says it perfectly…What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

If we believe that God is completely sovereign and has complete control, if we have complete faith in that then we should preserve in every single one of our tribulations.

I know that is hard, we ask why did this happen and that, its not fair, why does it happen to good people, Im a good person.   

God will never give us more that we can handle, period, if God gives it to us, we MUST have the faith and hope that this is in complete control.