Bluewater Bay Campus eLetter
From Our Campus Pastor
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking…
On behalf of the entire crew, we’d like to welcome you on board flight, Crosspoint, Bluewater Bay, with non-stop service to knowing Christ and making Him known!
That’s just a little opening for you to think about the fact that if you are a frequent flyer, you could probably repeat that monologue verbatim! The pilot of the aircraft will typically start making announcements after takeoff once the plane has climbed to a safe altitude. The pilot will then transition control to autopilot.
And this is where I would like for us to pause and process for a moment. Autopilot is a good thing when you are in the air and on a plane. But I would say not so much when in a relationship! As a matter of fact, this is why the leadership of our church has led to preach sermon series on the importance of marriage and relationships. It is because too often, we can switch from manual controls to autopilot in our relationships. And just a few of the relationships in which it happens naturally are our relationship with the Lord, with one another, and within our families. Think of relationship autopilot occurring when people stop being intentional about their loved ones, and therefore, they become an afterthought rather than a priority.
This is why we do what we do. The Marriage You Want Community Group has been a blast, and we have grown in our understanding of best practices in our marriages and relationships. But at our campus, there are countless couple groups, women’s groups, men’s groups, multiply groups, and serve teams that fight the good fight of faith by not neglecting the habit of meeting together so that they can spur one another on to love and good deeds to avoid autopilot.
Which leads to my next question: what group or team are you developing in community to fight against relational autopilot?
We’d love to help. Reach out today (HERE) to join a group or, even better, help start one yourself.
And we will see you Sunday as we connect with Christ and one another in our worship service.
Also, don’t forget, this Sunday we wrap up The Marriage You Want series by talking about sex because we are not afraid to tackle difficult topics to avoid relational autopilot!
See you Sunday,
-Billy Russell
Campus Pastor
