Created for Community: Their Welfare, Our Welfare

Jeremiah 29:4-7, 10-11: This sermon concludes the summer sermon series on the ways we are created for community. Jeremiah told the exiles to Babylon to make a life there, and to pray for the city in which they found themselves, for in its welfare was their welfare. The American church is not in exile, but can feel at odds with the culture. Our mission statement is to seek the welfare of the city, town, location where we are, because just as God was the God of the Babylonians as well as the Jews, God is the God of our neighbors, and already at work in and through them to bring about God's plans.