If you've been a part of gatherings in the past few weeks, I hope you've been considering how your dreams might be connected to the work of God in the world. God is the author of all things good, true, just, right and beautiful, and he is inviting you to join that work and discover the life you've been dreaming of.
This goes way beyond a dream job or a dream vacation and points us to the God who made us and invites us to encounter him everyday in the ordinary moments of life. Following the way of Jesus leads us to discover this life with God, a life beyond short-sighted dreams. The Bible says it this way in 1 John 2:
Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world - wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important - has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. (The Message & TNIV)
As you consider your dreams, we'd love to capture what you're thinking in some kind of tangible way. Will you consider how you might be able to share your dream through art, music, writing, video, or whatever works for you? We'd love to keep these dreams in front of us as we continue exploring how to live a life that matters, pursuing the dreams of God for our life together.
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