Christianity, Hockey, and Good Advice

This is re-posted from The Anchorhold @ St.Laika's ( http://jh002a0382.typepad.com/the_anchorhold/# )I especially like the last paragraph.
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The great hockey player Wayne Gretsky said, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.'

I believe this skating for the puck is about searching for where God is at work dismantling barriers and transforming lives, not where we have already been. I believe it is about discovering fresh ways to embody God's love among the people, in surrounding neighborhoods, across every barrier, trusting the Spirit of Christ to transform lives. This is what it means to be a missional church whose primary purpose is lives being transformed by the Spirit.

The Church did not begin as an institution whose survival its members were enlisted to ensure. It began as a movement of believers, whose lives were being transformed by the Holy Spirit and summoned by God's love into the streets to announce the Good News.

-- Roy Howard