Awaken Community

What comes to mind when you hear the words "repent" and "sin"? Guesses are not much positivity. This morning, we dive into the biblical meaning behind these words and not necessarily the American church's meaning. 

Jesus was among the marginalized for a majority of the time he ministered. What does this say about the kingdom? How does it influence our lives and our community when we say we want to look like Jesus?

What does a life lived under the influence of the kingdom look like? How would it guide our decisions from day to day? And what does Jesus say the kingdom of God is like? This is one more thing that we center Awaken around, another piece of Jesus' life and teachings.

Jenna speaks this morning about Mark 2 where the religious leaders of Jesus' time once again question his disciples and their seeming snub at the rules and practices of the time. 

This morning, Micah shares about how we can see the thing behind the thing. For the Pharisees, it was washing your hands that made you clean. But what Jesus worked to change was the religion for religion sake; you can wash the outside of a cup and it's still dirty inside.

Pastor Kelly Chatman joins us this morning to continue our series on the Life & Teachings of Jesus.

For our second week of the series, we're talking about the third way; non-violence and peace making. It's the way of Jesus and of his kingdom.   ***This week we made the hard decision to be back online for a few weeks due to the surge of covid cases.

At Awaken, we say we're about the well and not the fence. We prefer to gather around the well instead of building a fence to decide who's in and who's out. Which begs the question - what's in the well? What do we center ourselves around? Starting this week, we'll name those things that we center our community around. 

As a community, we reflect on 2021 and share some of the ways we saw God working in our lives through the year. 

We invite you to consider the arrival of Emmanuel. God with us.