Connecting People with God's Kingdom

Connecting People

Families are formed out of much more than blood and birth.

Intro Illus: My favorite part of the wedding. Father connecting new bride and groom from the start.

MM and I once joined hands in that same manor but our family was formed out of far more than blood or birth.

Our family is also formed into a larger family through our connection to this body of believers unified under one common connection.

Romans 10:11–15 NASB95

For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointed.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!”

The connection each of us finds in salvation unifies us all under the shroud of His loving salvation. That connection outweighs our connection to anything this world has to offer. That connection has a tighter grip on our lives because it is the one thing that lasts from the day of our salvation to the day we die and then beyond. It depicts how we interact with our family, our friends, our business associates and our own personal internal struggles. It wipes away race, gender and life history. The blood of Jesus Christ washes clean the things that have caused the stains on our life, so that we might fully and without prejudice be a part of something so much bigger than ourselves to the point that we are willing to sacrifice all that we have and lay it down at His feet.

Without that connection, without that forgiveness we are left to a world that tossed us about every which way. But when tied into the connection of salvation we are anchored not only to an everlasting Father but to a community of people that are connected to each other at the core of who we are.

That connection is so deep that it reaches across the vast expanses of this world i that we are are able to have a common connection with friends in Africa, The Dominican Republic, Russia, The Texas valley, and downtown Houston when Lee Whitlock and crew spend every Wednesday night gathering with the homeless men and women in downtown. That connection even connects this church to those that spend time circling the earth on the International space station.

It is no small thing

UBCs connections run far deeper than Sunday morning from 9am-12:30pm at 16106 Middlebrook Dr.

Our connection to each other comes from nothing LESS than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If we allow anything else to overtake that singular connection than we forfeit the right in the strongest of terms to call ourselves the Church and at the very least call ourselves a family of faith.

Our connection to one another as a family through the knowledge of Jesus Christ rule over every word we speak and every way that we care for those among us.

John 13:34-35 is so very forthright in our approach to this point.

It is through our love and connection to one another here in this family that the world will know us. Not through a sticker on your car (believe me, i have seen some of you drive). Not through you sitting in the pews each and every Sunday and especially not through what you post on your social media feeds though all of those things are important.