Are You Living Life in Stereo?

After much thought, I have decided to change our opening series title to "Living life in stereo". Although I will be incorporating all of the "DNA" elements into the series, I wanted to accomplish several things. I wanted to shorten the series up a bit from the seven weeks orginally planned and scale it down to five weeks. I also want to focus on our five purposes as a church and weave our DNA into it. What are our five purposes? To Love, To Laugh, To Learn, To Live, and To Lift.

Why am I calling it "Living life in stereo"? I think it's a good phrase to describe what it's like when we are living our lives in balance with the five purposes. Have you ever listened to music through headphones when one side wasn't working? Something's missing, it's not balanced, it's awkward. It's the same when we aren't living life in balance with these five purposes.

The five purposes further defined:

To Love - To give of ourselves and serve others by discovering our God-given gifts, abilities and passion.
To Laugh - To get connected with other Christ followers and to share our life with them.
To Learn - To grow in our relationship with Jesus Christ through God's Word, prayer, and spiritual disciplines.
To Live - To live our lives in such a way that others see Jesus in us and want to follow Him.
To Lift - To lift up the name of Jesus and magnify Him through a lifestyle of worship.

It's gonna be a great series to "kick off" the launch of Elk Creek Church.