Welcome to the Journey

When Jesus called his disciples he called them to a journey called life. No big surprise there, God always invited people to life together with him. When He called a man named Abram in Genesis 12 it was to leave the familiar behind and come to a land God would show him and give to Abram's descendants. God calls him in verse 1 and they arrive in verse 5, short journey, but the journey only began with a trip to Canaan, the real journey was life together with God over the next 50 or so years. Every other personal story in the Bible begins with God calling someone or some group of people to a journey. The destination was always important but the journey was more important.

Over the next 25 years Abram would get a new name, becoming Abraham, father of many nations. He would have many adventures, prosper in all that he did, and learn about this God who first called him to the journey. He would learn to trust God enough to do whatever he asked but from time to time his faith would fail him and he would do something from doubt. He wasn't perfect, far from it, but God took Abram, imperfections and all, and used him to build a people.

The amazing thing is that this man, Abram, was a complete nobody until God called him and he agreed to follow. At the end of his life he had fathered two sons and that was it. If not for God's plan for those children, no one should ever have heard of Abram. At the end of his life he owned exactly enough of the land God had promised to be buried there in a cave. His mark on the world was insignificant at the time of his death. He was somewhat well known in the region but there is no reason on earth that we should know who he was today, except for the fact that God kept His promise to Abram.

The Journey is a worship service, a place to begin the journey of life with God, a place to ask questions, to seek to know more about God, to express your doubts and to join others on the journey. Life can be more than a series of random events leading to death, life with God can be world changing.