I am going to talk more about a favorite theme — our community and neighborhood. This past Saturday I saw a friend who was a Seminary student. After completing his degree, he stayed here in Louisville for ministry. If you think that I have embraced Old Louisville and the city of Louisville, you haven’t heard anything until you have talked with this guy. He knows everyone and knows everything that is happening around here. There are moments when I verge on envy of his knowledge and connections, but I long ago faced up to the reality that I do not have the time or relational energy to talk with as many people and for as long as he is able to do. I can however raise awareness about our community and further our goal of indigenous evangelism.

To that end, I draw your attention to the Greater Louisville Project. If you read this summary of goals, you will see that this city has especially targeted a demographic group to recruit and retain in the city that matches our demographic profile as a church. We sometimes worry about the generations we don’t have. Rather than complain about the people we don’t have, see how what we have matches a “need” in the life of the city. Hopefully our new Deacon of Outreach help us think about how the city’s needs might be an opportunity for us to become known and to know more people. Hopefully, all of us will continue to think and to pray about how our lives can be folded into the life of this neighborhood and city to the end of demonstrating the truth of the Gospel.

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