Pray with me!
When we started Crossbridge almost seven years ago we (me and the team that launched the church) were young and idealistic. One of the things I said over and over is we will build this on prayer. So for the first couple of years we did that. We prayed for a different church every Sunday, we have 40 Days of Prayer and Fasting and different prayer emphasis. Then something happened.
We stopped praying.
Oh, we still prayed in our services and for each other in groups but the intensity, the frequency and the focus stopped. I can’t put my finger on any one specific incident but I looking back I see a pattern of busyness and inattention that caused us to drift from praying. I now know something I wish someone would have told me then:
You have to fight to pray.
I don’t drift into prayer. I have to choose to pray.
I also realized that Crossbridge doesn’t drift toward prayer. We drift toward activity. We drift toward unbelief.
We must choose to pray. We must fight to pray.
Well, I am seeking to repent of my personal prayerlessness and lead our church toward being a church that prays.
Beginning Tuesday September 1st we will have a once a month prayer gathering called “First Tuesday”. We will use these gatherings to pray for God’s work and blessing to be on our lives, church and greater community. This service will last for one hour. We will sing a little bit to warm ourselves up, have some guiding words, and then pray!
Will you join me this and every First Tuesday that you can to pray for and with Crossbridge?
First TuesdaySeptember 1, 2009
7:00 -8:00 p.m.
1049 Eldridge Auditorium
Childcare provided birth-Kindergaten
e-mail info@crossbridge.cc to reserve a spot
