2008: A Year of Working Together

If you are on this page you probably already know that the lock-in sort of had a theme of working together (although it was not well received). That will be a big theme for this year: working together.
On several occasions Paul writes to the early churches that they need to work on getting it together with each other. Paul writes that we are the body of Christ and a body is made up of many parts. The eye cannot turn to the leg and say, "Hey leg, we don't need you, take a hike!!" And the foot cannot say, "Hey you stupid tongue get outta here, we don't need your kind around here!!" We've got to figure a way to get it together with each other you know?
To loosely quote my favorite musician, Dave Matthews, "Because we can't figure things out if we just turn our backs on each other. You know?
You're and idiot!
No, you're an idiot!
No, you're an idiot!
No, you're an idiot!
No, you're an idiot!
And that crap goes on for a long, long time!"

Last year BCC took some big steps to reach out to the youth of Essex and was able to create a core group of teens (that's you). Well this year I want to take that core (you again) and I want to push you further and further into spiritual maturity. Part of that means that we really need to focus on this whole idea of working together. Because I have news for you, we are part of the church and the church's mission is to reach out to the unsaved. So if we cannot work together in doing that, than we will not be doing our part in fulfilling the work of the church.

~ Charles.