GEAR

This past Friday evening, we did something at Journey Church that absolutely blew me away.  We celebrated the volunteers of our church at both Kenosha and Burlington campuses with an event called "The Journeys."

A few got special awards but everybody who serves is priceless and honored.  The Dream Team.  These folks are the gears that make the movement of Jesus thrive.  They're the ones who push the cause of Christ forward -- grinding it out day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year.  

The apostle Paul, almost every time he began one of his letters wrote:  'I Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ.'  He saw servanthood as his fundamental identity.

The Journey Award

 That's our  
 fundamental
 identity as
 followers of Jesus, too.  It happens the day you receive
 amazing grace -- the day you become aware Jesus bled and
 died for your sins on a cross -- the day salvation comes to you
 as a gift -- the day you fall on your knees and say, 'What can I 
 surrender to You, Lord, for all Your benefits to me?'

 'Be steadfast, immovable.  Keep abounding in the work of the 
 Lord because your work is not in vain if it is for the Lord.'  (I 
 Corinthians 15:58)

 #journeyforward

 And be blessed.