Starting: Starting Out

There are 2 things Jesus does when we’re starting out.
1. Jesus finds us right where we are.
2. Jesus opens our eyes to see Him differently, as we didn’t recognize Him before.
Jesus wants to hear us in our own words. There's a lesson for us in our relationship with Jesus, and there's also a lesson in our relationship with others. We may think we know the story of others and even think we have all the answers, but what if we listened to them in their own words?
Pastor Michael Hoddy shares that the truth anchors us when situations and circumstances attempt to dislodge or shake us. It keeps us from navigating in the moment when our feelings, fears, and hopes are calling loudly. So much of the world around us and even inside our church's own walls is built around the idea that how we see, feel, and experience things is a gauge of what's true and real.
This video explains that our purpose is not to stay with Jesus but to use our time with Him to set us up for the journey, realizing His spirit goes with us. As much as He reveals Himself to us, it's our task and mission to reveal Him to others.
So, maybe we need Jesus to meet us today as we’re starting out, or maybe He’s already here, but we need to see Him with new eyes. It's great in here and we love being in here. We need to be in here, but in here isn’t the end. In here is for us to encounter the same things so that we can go out there.
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Long Hill Chapel is part of The Christian & Missionary Alliance (C&MA), also called The Alliance. LHC has a significant history from its founding by a group of like-minded families in 1946. Since then, pastors, business leaders, community builders, and families have been raised up by LHC. Missionaries from Long Hill Chapel have been sent and supported to the far corners of the earth, churches planted, and resources provided to the local, regional, and global impact for Jesus.