Navigating the Road: One Way

Yesterday, we continued with our new sermon series, Navigating the Road: Discerning Purpose Along the Way and blessed and prayed over our students and educators as they prepare for the start of another year of school over the next two weeks. Pastor Clare shared the children’s story with our students, The World Needs Who You Were Meant to Be celebrating the uniqueness of each person and the part we all have to play as we live into God’s purposes for us.

In her sermon, Pastor Clare shared Romans 12:1-8 from the Message that calls us all to take our ordinary, everyday lives—our eating, sleeping, going to work, walking around lives—and offer them up to God. In his writing Paul emphasizes how we are each part of the body, all playing our unique part in the larger whole. We spent time unpacking our theme verse for the day, Romans 12:6, which says— “So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in Christ’s body, 6 let’s just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren’t.”

Our sign this week is the One Way sign, and there is one for all of us. It points in the direction of God’s way for us, God’s will for each of our lives, which works to keep us from living anyone else’s life but our own. The road this “One Way” sign takes us upon is unique to each of us—it is a reminder to us that we don’t need to follow the crowd, or try to fit in, or be something we are not. Instead, we are to follow the road as it unfolds for us when we follow God’s direction in our lives. For it is in walking that road that you become what the world and our God needs—who you were meant to be.