Isight's google group

[pastor josh]

Hi Isight church,

Welcome to the new group page. Our hope is that this will be a place
of interaction and discussion during the times in which we are apart
as a body. Look for the preaching team to post notes from their
messages and ask some prompting questions for reflection and devotion
for you and/or your small group.

We're currently in the midst of our summer series entitled "Faith-Life
Essentials" and I hope that you're finding the series challenging and
encouraging. We've talked about worshiping God with tithes and
offerings; the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper; prayer;
adoption in Christ; repentance; membership; and exile.

This week we'll focus on worship and the next we'll visit the subject
of membership again. I'm currently working on the sermon and the
process has been challenging. If you're looking for some extra
reading, outside of the scriptures, see C.S. Lewis _The Weight of
Glory_, esp. pages 162-169. Lewis gets into some stuff that is
especially pertinent to our discussion on the subject of membership,
and some stuff I can't get into during our limited time on Sunday
morning.

Here's a short excerpt worth pondering: "the society into which the
Christian is called at baptism is not a collective but a Body...[and
in it] there is a continual interchange of complementary
ministrations. We are all constantly teaching and learning, forgiving
and being forgiven, representing Christ to man when we intercede, and
man to Christ when others intercede for us. The sacrifice of selfish
privacy which is daily demanded of us is daily repaid a hundredfold in
the true growth of personality which the life of the Body encourages."

People get wigged out about formal commitments, but they're not
something to run from; they're something to embrace. They are for us
the invitation into real life with God and the real change in us that
He desires.

God's blessings on us all,
Josh