Our culture teaches us that happiness is the goal, and the route to happiness is having love, money, success and power. The Church is called to something different. We are a city on a hill, a counter-cultural people. The problem is that if we aren't careful, we too will be conformed to the pattern of this world...and we'll have no idea that it's happened. Our hope is two-fold. First, the Gospel reminds us of who God is, what He's done, who we are, and how we now get to live. It gives us the power to resist this pull. Second, community reminds us that we can live differently. We cannot be who were were created to be apart from community. We desperately need one another.

In this message we introduce the series "Hope, Habits and Hunger." Just as Paul does in 1 Timothy 4, we will look at the similarities (and differences) between physical training and spiritual training.