The Intentional Church

I am incredibly excited about what God is doing at RESYNC! 144 joined together this past Saturday to be a part of what I affectionately call "the intentional church." Why? Not because we spend hours each week in preparation,but because we desire to intentionally remind ourselves of the life of Christ within us. We want to take the focus off of us and our shortcomings and to find ourselves always walking with the awareness of God in us. God is in those of us who have called Him to be our Savior. All of Christ exists in each believer. We don't need to try and become something; rather, we need to access the perfect life of Christ that exists within us and rest in the knowledge that He is all that we need. How do we accomplish this? We have been inspired by Bud McCord of Abide International (abideinternational.org) to "refresh" ourselves regulary by making time to listen, praise, thank, confess, affirm, intercede, ask, and act. As a group of us sat brainstorming for this Saturday night service, we went back to that process and immediately thought of resyncing our iPhones and iPods to itunes for updates that made our devices function optimally once again. That is how the name RESYNC was born. We took the steps of the refresh process and changed the words a bit to fit our service! Our RESYNC process is as follows:

Revive-Moment of praise and worship

Reset-Moment of listening

Release-Moment of prayer

Reaffirm-Moment of teaching

Refine-Moment of confession

React-Moment of outreach and small groups

It is our hope and prayer that others would see the benefit of taking a moment to refresh and resync our lives to the life of Christ within us. Coming to RESYNC should be refreshing in that we take the time to throw off the things that are weighing us down and intentionally remind ourselves of the beautiful completeness that is to be had through acknowledging and relying on the life of Christ within every believer.