September has arrived and with it all the fresh new starts and familiar normal rhythms. New starts are experienced by students heading back to school, advancing to the next grade in their journey. Normal rhythms are encouraged as schedules that were relaxed through the summer months return to their usual pace.
New starts and normal rhythms come to our AMBC family as well. Fall is an opportunity to get moving again and see ministries re-start and serve the people of our church and community. We are looking forward to Sunday, September 12 at 9:45am as we have our “Kick Off Sunday”! Come that day and learn more about what is planned for the coming months.
Normal rhythms also are important in the life of our church. COVID and summer have maybe removed each of us from a “regular routine” of church attendance and involvement. Now is the time to jump back in to those familiar normal rhythms. We must recognize that, as believers, we were meant to live connected lives. The picture in Scripture is that of a body. Just like our physical body is made up of many parts that are fitted and working together, so too are we, as Christians, a part of the body of Christ. Paul says, “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we are all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body — whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free — and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many…Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.” (1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27)
So as we come to this fall season, let’s jump back in, together, to those normal rhythms and maybe some new starts as well.
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