As a brand new church community in Charlotte, we are seeking to simply practice the way of Jesus, together, for the renewal of our city. As we see it, to be a disciple, or an apprentice of Jesus of Nazareth, is to order your life around three goals: be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did. Our dream is that as we live this way, our lives, our communities, and our city will be transformed: in Charlotte as it is in Heaven.
We would have to ignore large portions of Scripture to avoid God’s concern for the poor and his desire for his people to care for them. In the first century, the poor or “the needy” would have included widows, orphans, or those in prison.Today, this could be children in the foster care system, a single parent, the sick, the elderly on a fixed income, or refugees. While our societal order often overlooks these individuals and keeps them on the margins, Jesus’ order — or the Kingdom of Heaven — moves them toward equal ground at the center. Jesus so identifies with and cares for the poor that, to follow him, means we must also brush shoulders with the needy. And more than that, we must see in them a brother and a sister.This is what distinguishes service in the way of Jesus: we are invited beyond charity from afar into love up close; to leave ourselves open to the reality that service may not only turn strangers into neighbors but into family. This is the dignifying destination that true service leads us toward — kinship.Teacher: Caleb SprinkleText: Various
30 Aug 2026
11 Service: Availability
Jesus lived a remarkably interruptible life. More than 30 stories in the Gospel of Mark alone hinge on Jesus’ ability to see an interruption as an invitation. And these are just the stories that were recorded from his life. We can never know just how many people received Jesus’ loving attention and service in these unplanned moments.This way of being in the world is about more than our personality — whether we consider ourselves more planned or spontaneous. It’s about practicing radical availability — to consider that seemingly annoying distractions in life may actually be holy disruptions.Some of the most beautiful opportunities for service pass us by unknowingly in the ordinary movements of our days, while our attention is fixed on our plans rather than the people God loves right in front of us. The invitation, by God’s grace, is for us to become the kinds of people who increasingly see the needs around us and stop to serve them.That, like the Good Samaritan in Jesus’ famous parable, we might be those who choose not to walk by on the other side but to cross over in compassion.Teacher: Brittni RatliffText: Various
23 Aug 2026
10 Service: Hiddenness
Where does your imagination go when you consider where you can serve?Perhaps it leads you to your local church, the care home nearby, or the low- income neighborhood in your city. For some of us, these very well could be the places Jesus is leading us to give more of ourselves — more on that in the sessions to come. But if we consider Jesus’ life, and specifically the environments where he chose to serve, we see a recurring theme: Jesus often served in very ordinary spaces — in homes and marketplaces, at water wells and dinner tables, even in what we could call his “daily commute.”What if our greatest opportunities to practice loving service are not in places we have yet to enter, but where we already are? Familiar places like our offices, homes, and neighborhoods — among people who know us and whom we know in return. For most of us, serving in these environments is much more challenging than picking up a ladle at a soup kitchen or mowing a stranger’s lawn. But when we choose to serve in them anyway, these environments become places of deep formation where we can be transformed into people of love.Teacher: Caleb SprinkleText: Various
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