The Oxygen of Grace
In a recent article on preaching by Tim Keller, he says,
"I have often had the experience of people who have been converted... come to see me some time later and tell me about what happened to them. What they have so often said is, 'When we first came to the Church we really did not understand much of what you were talking about.' I then asked them what made them continue coming, and have been told again and again that, 'There was something about the whole atmosphere that attracted us…we gradually began to find we were absorbing the truth…it began to have meaning for us more and more.'
My prayer for Creekstone is that we would exhibit such an atmosphere of grace, from the greeters, to the cafe' folks, to the children's volunteers to the band and preaching, that people keep coming back, finding that they have eventually absorbed this atmosphere of grace. For many it is a process. Continual exposure. So let's not grow weary in serving our community by setting up for worship week after week. What a privilege it is to be participants in the journey of someone else coming alive to the wonder of the gospel by breathing the life giving and sustaining oxygen of grace!
