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Happy October!
With the smell of cardboard and packing tape fresh in my mind, I am happy to be writing you as your soon to be installed Pastor.
Try to provide some personal and communicable structure to an otherwise chaotic time.
River of wellbeing metaphor
Pursue Hospitality. Rom 12:1-2, do not be conformed to the world. Rom 12:9-18 what it looks like to live as a Christian in love. Paul talks about how to live as church but also how to respond to the world outside. This is a great section on rhythms.
What is hospitality. The Greek word is a combination of two words.
Philo - love
Xenia- strange.
Which means love of those who are strange. That is what hospitality is it’s messy and hard.
Core Culture
Warmth - is characterized by displaying kindness and welcome and value to others
Challenge - willingness to share to truth in love so that all my remains and know the saving faith of Jesus Christ
Grace - echoing of Gods love and forgiveness of us to others
Acclimatization
Forming, storming, norming
Metaphor of fish in a bag in a new tank