Date: January 12, 2025
Bible Text: Acts 8:1-17, Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 | Rev. David A. Douthett
Series: Dreaming God's Dream
Topics: Baptism,Baptism of the Lord,Church Growth,Spiritual Growth
Date: January 12, 2025
Bible Text: Acts 8:1-17, Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 | Rev. David A. Douthett
Series: Dreaming God's Dream
Topics: Baptism,Baptism of the Lord,Church Growth,Spiritual Growth
God has blessed us in so many ways! As we start this new year we are trying to imagine what God has in store for us, what God might be dreaming for us. What dreams do we have that might reflect God’s own longing? Last week we dreamed about how we can follow Christ more closely as disciples, alone and together (you need both). This week let’s dream a bit about what it might be like to grow the congregation. Sure spiritually, but also in actual numbers. It’s not something we talk about explicitly very often, having been pretty much the same size congregation, plus or minus, for 260 years. What if we actually let ourselves believe that God wants to add to our numbers? Since this Sunday is the day we mark the Baptism of the Lord, and baptism is the sacrament of joining God’s family, it seems like a good time to ask.