CrossLand’s new website and you
Posted by Adam Desmond on January 30, 2010
Welcome! Our church is really excited to begin this new chapter in our ministry online. We believe God wants us to be more intentional about communicating who we are to all people. You see, just like you, God has blessed us with unique and wonderful gifts and insights into who He is, and we want to be able to share those gifts with you.
Right now we’re starting with our Leadership Team. Each of us will be blogging about our relationship with God, our ministry and anything else God shares with us. We hope that these blogs bless you, but even more, we hope that they stretch your understanding of who God is.
Our banner verse for 2010, the verse that God gave our pastor to help us focus our minds on what God wants to accomplish this year, is Isaiah 55:1-3:
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
So each of us will be asking God to illuminate this passage in the context of our lives, our ministries, and our walks with Him, and we’ll be sharing that with you. But all of this is to focus on the great gifts that God has given us, not how great we are for having such wise, deep insights. We’re just average, everyday people, your neighbor, your doctor, your homebuilder, your network administrator, your friend. We’re just normal people who have begun to experience God in a tangible way, communicate with Him, not just to Him, and walk with Him through our lives, learning to become His children.
Sometimes we’ll be wrong, and we encourage you to let us know when you think so, but you’ll notice that comments are off on this blog. We discussed how we should communicate with people on the blog, and we believe that there are too many opportunities for miscommunication and misunderstanding in such an impersonal and anonymous method of social interaction. I’ve seen far too many fruitful discussions turn into petty name-calling and bickering over subtext and inferences. So we chose to limit these discussions to email. Each of our blogs will have a contact link, and you can email us directly with any questions or comments, and we’ll do our best to answer them. We want very much to learn how God is using this ministry, but not at the price of detracting from what should be the only focus of our site: who God is and what He is doing at CrossLand Community Bible Church.
I hope that you find the time you spend on our website to be encouraging, uplifting, thought-provoking, conscience-pricking, mind-expanding, and even fun! After all, a relationship with God should be filled with and characterized by love, joy, peace, and hope. And God’s faithful love will be the majority of what we focus on this year, so my prayer for you is that you will experience in powerful and new ways the mighty, tender, powerful, awesome, gracious, unconditional love of YHWH, the almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jennifer, Windy, John, Ron, Adam, Buddy and you.
Please contact me with questions, concerns or comments:
