What about those who have not heard the Gospel? In the Book of Romans, the Apostle Paul writes to Jewish and Gentile Christians who are challenged by getting along and getting the Gospel out.  Today we look at our shared Hope of Oneness -- the one thing all believers have in common and the one hope we're striving toward together.  Join us each week in October to discover more.

We're in a series called, CHOSEN: Finding your identity in Christ.  It's based on a heart-felt letter from the Apostle Peter to the churches of Asia and to us!  You won't believe (well, we hope you do) who you really are in God's eyes!  Join us each Sunday in September as we explore you true identity in Christ!

You know, when we come to church and we sit through a Communion service, we walk through this meal, we read through the Lord’s Supper from one of the Gospels, and we think about the Bread and the Cup, the Body and the Blood, that Jesus sacrificed for us for eternal life. But the room we sit in (in church) isn’t THE Upper Room. We know we are far from that original scene and our heads and our hearts are, at least at first, in disconnect.  Find youself in the story of the Lord's Supper and find your Upper Room.

Maybe you can identify with constant demands on you from other people - maybe from your kids, or parents, or teachers, or bosses.  And the greater the demand, the greater the sense of urgency. Right? Urgent things cause desperation in our hearts and we feel compelled to respond to them ASAP. The urgent things in life tend to crowd out the important things. How do you not let that happen? How do you focus your priorities, so that your purpose and your passion are at the top on the to-do pile?  That's what we learn today!