What is Christian Community? _____________________________
Letter from the Pastor 5/22/2025
INTRODUCTION
Community in the church is unique. There’s nothing else like it. Outside of the church people find community through nationality, shared political ideas, shared stage of life, work, or common interests and hobbies. But the unity and community of the church transcends all these categories.
Every Sunday morning we confess our belief in the “communion of the saints,” form the Apostles’ Creed. …
Letter from the Pastor 5/13/2025
INTRODUCTION
204 people have come through the doors of Lake Wylie Baptist Church in the last three months. Around three-quarters of that number are members and their children and the rest are regular attenders and recent visitors. Those 204 people are spread over a 25 mile stretch on the southwest side of the Charlotte Metro area. Some live right down the street from our church campus, others …
The Healing of Community
An Orderly Account: Encountering Jesus in the Gospel of Luke
Luke 5:12-26
The Text
12 While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” 13 And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy …
Introduction:
Last Summer I read Ernest Hemmingway’s The Old Man & the Sea while I was at the beach on vacation.
The story follows Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, who hasn’t caught a fish in 84 days. He’s deemed “salao” (unlucky) by his community. He’s wrestling with his age, his weakness, his recent failure. And he says, “If I can go out to the deep water one more time and catch a giant Marlin that …
