A Message from our Pastor
There is something about our imagination; there is something about our ability to dream what is not already a reality. It gives us goosebumps on our arms and makes the hairs on the back of our necks stand on end. Our imaginations have this incredible, unbelievable ability to inspire and sustain us even through difficult and discouraging times.
That is part of what makes Ephesians 3:20-21 so astounding to me. If God can do “infinitely more than our greatest request, our most unbelievable dream, and exceed our wildest imagination!” then we’d better buckle up for the ride. I have dreams for our church family, and I know you do too.
I dream that when people ask their neighbours about this place, they will be told it is a place of peace, power, healing, help, and love.
God has put a challenge before us with this campaign, asking us to step out together in faith. He is calling us to stretch our giving, rejecting the narrative of scarcity; to link arms together as one body, rejecting the disunity around us; to lean-in and “never doubt God’s mighty power to work in us” (3:20), rejecting the idea that somehow this is all up to us.
This is my personal invitation to you: come join my family and I as we watch God do infinitely more than we can even dream.
- Lane Scruggs
Prayer
God, you are a God who sends. And you have invited us, your church, to “Go” with you on this journey.
You have called your people at Oak Park to go to our community and to our city. You have called us to prepare a place of radical hospitality to show the world a different way, the way of Jesus.
May you imprint these thoughts on our minds over the coming days: Generously, Sacrificially, and Joyfully!
On our own we can do so little, but with you at work among us, we can do infinitely more than we could ever imagine.
- Amen