The Bridge

What’s wrong with this bridge?



There is nothing wrong with the bridge.  It is a perfectly fine structure, spanning a river that used to be but is no longer there.

In 1998, Hurricane Mitch roared across the Caribbean and dumped over six feet of water on Honduras.  The massive flooding from the hurricane changed the course of the Choluteca River so that the bridge no longer spanned the river.

Many people feel that the church in North America is like this bridge.  A massive hurricane has been blowing through civilization radically changing its course.  The church, a perfectly fine structure, is spanning a civilization that is no longer where the church was built to serve it.

Finding and reaching the new course of civilization and of our society is a challenge that we at Community Life Church accept.  We don’t fully know where this will take us, but we do know that continuing to span a society that used to be is not going to be much good to anybody.

Our focus on “passionate next generations” is part of it, but we are sure there will be more to learn and do as we seek to be the church that lifts up people of twenty-first century society, to help them to be the people that God has always intended that they could be.