Hey Church!
I hope you had a great Labor Day and a short week! I'm sooooooooo excited about kicking off our new series starting this week - "No Complaining." We're going to look at some scriptures that will help us speak life and understand why the negative isn't necessary. Bring a friend! It's going to be an awesome time.
This Sunday also marks the 15th anniversary of 9/11. We'll have a special time of prayer and remembering. I hope to see you there. Don't forget at Harmony Grove the Traditions Experience moves to 11:15 this week.
Thought for the Week
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
I was recently looking over electrical, mechanical and plumbing plans for The Commons construction project at our Harmony Grove location, and for a liberal arts major, it's about like reading another language. They are so detailed about every aspect. Have you ever looked at detailed building plans? They look very complicated. I know that the finished product will be beautiful, even if I don't understand all the plans. If an architect's plans look complicated to laymen like me, imagine what God's plans for your life look like to our mortal minds. They are a web of details, categories, and explanations that you and I don't understand. They are drawings of what does not yet exist. We can't understand them. They are beyond our comprehension. However, I wouldn't dare tell our architect that I or one of church members is going to take over the project because we just don't understand all his drawings and it looks too complicated. We trust him. We trust his knowledge to help create a beautiful finished product and we know it's a project beyond our scope and knowledge. But how many times do we take the blueprints away from THE Architect and take over our lives because the process is taking too long, we don't understand the plan or it's just too complicated? How many times do we think we know better than Him? He has plans. Plans to make you into a beautiful finished product. Be certain that you won't understand them all now. Trust the Architect and resist the urge to start drawing yourself. He's got a plan so much better than you could have imagined.
In Christ,
Carter McInnis
Lead Pastor
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