new day

Hey everybody! I am writing this a few days after Easter. My body and mind are tired but my spirit is alive and well! I am so excited about the things that are happening at The Journey and I feel truly privileged to be a part of the creative process as we dream of the future together. What will the future of The Journey look like? How about the future of the Church in general? When I think of these things, I see interconnected lives. I see housewives and accountants and custodians and teachers and physicians and artists all connecting and sharing and loving and living together. At The Journey, we are trying to be intentional about building our church on relationships. There is a real beauty in true community. Most of us at The Journey come from traditional church backgrounds or no church background at all so we don't have a good idea of what true community looks like. But we realize that God has called us to something more than what church "looks" like in America today. We have a desire in our collective gut to be something more than we are. We really want to affect change: in our schools, in politics, in our communities and in the world at large. But we've realized that the first step towards change is to reach out and connect. We truly want to be a church with the wider community at its heart. And so as we try to become this different kind of church that really invests in people's lives, we realize that things will get messy. Relationships are messy. People can be offensive. But we believe that this is what God is calling us to. We love people because God loves people. We will continue to reach out and love and accept and challenge all who come across our paths. We are a community of people who are trying their best to live out the way of Jesus. Things are happening as a result of this. A movement is beginning to grow. It is a new day.