Thursday, August 31, 2006

Block PARTAY!!!

You may know that Cornerstone is a church, not a building. We are the people of God seeking to build the Kingdom in Cranberry Twp. This Sunday, I'll be preaching as a part of our worship service about hospitality. We are called to be "hospitable" to people. The root word of hospitality is hospital, so I'm making the case that we're to be people who are allowing the lost and hurting of our area to receive healing. And our chief of staff at Cornerstone Hospital is Dr. Jesus! But sometimes, the hurting won't or can't come to the hospital. That's why we really need to be an ambulance...a MICU (Mobile Intensive Care Unit - which is apparently ambulance speak for ambulance!). We need to bring the "doctor" to the people if the people won't come to the "doctor."

So tomorrow, Cornerstone is hosting a block party. We don't have a real church building. We just lease some warehouse flex space and have lots of other people in our complex who are doing the same. For lunch tomorrow, we're throwing a block party for our neighbors. We're gonna cook dogs and burgers on the grill, and just have a good time hanging with our business neighbors.

I'm proud of Cornerstone, 'cause that's hospitality. And it is MICU... Pray that one of our neighbors who may be hurting might find some healing in our hospitality tomorrow.

3 comments:

Brett Probert said...

Actually, I love the sarcasm!!! Keep it up...live it up! Thanks again for your leadership last night Ben. God really used you dude.

Keith H. McIlwain said...

Sounds like lots of fun and a great opportunity! God bless you all!

Brett Probert said...

It was awesome...a number of people from (I think) 7 local businesses in our part of the business park showed up. Thanks to all those Cornerstonians who showed up to help. A great time was had by all!