Developing a Spiritual "Blue Print"

Discovering a “Blue Print” for living in the Body of Christ

We are developing a blueprint for our spiritual journey. We will begin to work to do our part in cooperation with the Holy Trinity to accomplish the task set before us in Ephesians 4:12-13, “To prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.”

In the next six weeks we will begin to decipher where we each fit in the Body of Christ. For the first three weeks we will continue to prepare ourselves by developing spiritual practices that bring us closer to God and transform how we look at ourselves and the world. Then we will search for a vision of what it would mean to truly live into the Kingdom of God and how we individually and collectively fit into that vision.

Take a moment now and visualize where your house is. Next, draw a map from there to here. Did you draw the fastest route, the easiest to explain, or the one that passes your favorite coffee shop? All our maps may be different and yet still correct. Where we arrive at the end of this six weeks together we may be at a similar place, but we may each discover that we have traveled a different route and may be called by God to perform a different task. Both the destination and the journey are equally important.

The purpose of this group is to help you transform your relationship with God, and also to build community with each other so that we can support each other, witness to each other, and be accountable to each other. We are the Body of Christ together. May God give us what we need to become that more and more each day.