Real People Following Jesus in our Real Lives

We certainly have a great view of a good part of the town of Cochrane

from the windows in our church from our location up on the side of the

hill.

It is an amazing sight.  The blue (and in the winter - blue and white)

mountains in the distance, the beautiful valley below, and in and

around that valley -  our town.

What do we see when we look at this town?  Well the incredible natural

setting I mentioned...for which we are always grateful.  We also see a

town full of businesses  - and mostly households - full of ordinary people

living out their daily lives.

There's lots of joy there; there's love and warmth and laughter in

these households. There is busyness, sometimes, and the daily grind.

There is grief and dissapointment.  There is stress.  There is

commitment and good will.  There are young kids and there are

grandparents and great-grand parents.  There is us - that is real

ordinary people.

For 2000 years or so, these kind of people are the vast majority of

people who have followed Jesus...not great saints or famous leaders

but people like this...like us.

And this is what they have found - that following Jesus makes us more

real and true and human.  It is what it means to be fully human.  It

brings beauty and order and dignity into our lives.  It opens our lives

to God's presence.

We have found that God has wired us ordinary human beings to follow

Jesus - who is the perfect human being and who is God Himself.

So here we are an imperfect community of the imperfect who want to

live our real lives following this person in lives just like yours.

And we have a message...doing so opens a door between God's presence

and our ordinary lives.  Jesus is that door.

If you are an ordinary person with ordinary joys and struggles - come

on in...there is someone who wants to welcome you...someone we'd like

you to meet.




Greg