Television shows guarantee a cliffhanger at the end of a series, with tantalising promises of drama, intrigue and joy. Welcome to the finale of White House Community Season One.
Series one has seen the birth of a community united by a greater purpose, sustained by respect and fun and energised by beautiful hopes and promises. What a joy it's been to see stirring and dreaming turn into reality.
We have learnt that if you dare to do the ridiculous, God will do the impossible.
We have recognised that we ought to be more afraid of our faith being irrelevant and meaningless than the fact that the risks we take might blow up in our face.
We have been stirred by the challenge to ensure that listening is accompanied by action - on God's terms, not our own, but for our own sakes, for plans of good men and women will never be good enough; they will never be big enough, wonderful enough - they will always be restricted by common sense and apparent circumstances. God-plans are not subject to such limitations.
We have discovered that you can pray for as many different things as you like but it is simple faith in the goodness of God that is the greatest thing that you can be given.
And so, as we enter the final stages of season one we welcome new faces - new permanent house mates, new young people. We farewell old house mates, temporary visitors and prepare for new life and celebrate fresh love. We seek to hold on to the amazing things we have come to learn together and ask God that we would continue to be challenged, animated and guided by the radical impulse of his Holy Spirit.
Pray that season 2 would be just as life-giving.
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