Growing

Keeping in step with entire Chicago Church of Christ, the Central Ministry Center is focused in 2012 on the theme, "Growing." Over the past several years, our group of faithful followers has been a model of love and generosity. We know how to take care of each other. We give generously. We serve willingly.

As we embark on another year of faithful service, each disciple has been called to GROW. We want to grow in our faith in God, especially in the exercise of that faith in consistent, passionate, and specific prayer. We love the Lord, and we worship the Lord energetically; this year, we want to focus on taking our prayer and praise lives to places we've never been!

We are also committed to grow in the specific expressions of our love, both for one another and for those who do not yet have a relationship with God. Within the body, that is a call to embrace our relationships with one another in a deeper way, being involved in discipling relationships and obeying more diligently the one another challenges we find in the pages of the New Testament. Outside of the body, we are striving to reach out more aggressively, to go about the business of our lives in a purposeful and focused manner, always seeking ways that we can help our friends come to know what it means to follow Jesus.

Peter, in his second Epistle, challenges us to "make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love." That is our commitment as we move forward, living our lives for the Glory of God.