Join us at Logan as we continue with our current series, Church in The Mess. This week Pastor Henry encourages us how to engage the world around us without losing our identity. Would you change your preferences or lifestyle, to reach someone with the gospel? Don’t let adaptation turn into “cultural captivity” or compromise. Find your true “freedom through service” by becoming so secure in your love and identity in Jesus Christ that you are “free to be incredibly flexible” and radically generous with your time and resources for the sake of others, giving you the strength to become “all things to all people”.
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. – 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (ESV)