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A yearning to connect Sunday and Monday
God has placed deep within each person a yearning
to find a place where they can experience a sense of belonging and make a
difference in the world. This yearning raises questions . . .
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How do I know what I was created to be?
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Where can I experience a sense of belonging?
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Where are the places that I can make a difference
in the world?
These are universal questions that all people
experience throughout their lives, sometimes more and sometimes less.
Meanwhile, God’s people sit in the pews of churches all over the country trying
to make a connection between their experience on Sunday morning and the
complicated lives they live in their homes, workplaces and communities. For too
many, church functions as another activity, a competitor for time and money – an
obligation rather than a resource for lives of daily faithfulness.
Church leaders reinforce the Sunday to Monday disconnect by focusing on internal
maintenance instead of equipping God’s people for work and ministry in God’s
world. We are called to live each day wholly centered in Christ.
At Centered Life, we believe it is the mission of our congregations to nurture
people in the naming of their gifts, the knowledge of how to live their faith in
every situation and the confidence to make their unique contributions to God’s
sustaining work.
The following graphics illustrate how Centered
Life helps congregations recognize and respond to this challenge.
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