BlogRants, Raves, and maybe some Wisdom

As we think about the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. We need to return to Jesus' words:

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And [Jesus] said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.

This week we're talking about Community Groups, also known as the system we like to describe as the "heart of the church"! We talk about it this way because, at 6:8, we believe that community really does matter; it's one of our core values. While all our systems incorporate this community value, none of them capture it as distinctly as Community Groups – its right there in the name! If this value is going to come to life in us, we need places to practice, places to "work out our salvation" (Phil.

Following in line with our recent blogs about the healthy systems structure of Six:Eight, today we will be looking at the system of Church Planting & Mission.

Welcome to the fifth installment of our blog series exploring the systems that work behind the scenes at Six:Eight! This week we'll be looking in-depth at a system that is very tightly connected to the Impressions system - Worship Arts. Think of all that we experience together on Sunday mornings: singing, preaching, visual slides, communion, videos, lighting, announcements – all of these things and the people behind them are included in Worship Arts.