Messages from The Grove The Church at Pleasant Grove

aIn the penultimate message of the series, John Driver explores how our own developmental stories affect the practices we adopt— and how the story of the gospel leads us out of stagnation and into and into fresh newness in our practices so that we can consistently approach the Lord’s table on a regular basis with humility and wonder.
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John Driver addresses some of the difficulties the modern mind has with Jesus’s use of the term “blood” as connected to wine that we drink. Returning to God’s covenant “blood walk” with Abram in Genesis 15, we learn that these practices and images reach far deeper than we often understand today, but that Christ’s new covenant revealed at His table is the best of news, calling us to into the light and life of the bread and wine rather than the darkness of the sacrifice and death of flesh and blood that we deserve.
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The act of communion was a table that Christ laid out for us to participate in. By doing so, it also speaks to the element of us being together as believers. Today we examine how taking communion is truly an act of being together in unity.
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John Driver opens up a new series exploring the biblical and historical event of Holy Communion and what it means for us today as an ongoing practice (reflected in many different church traditions) in which we actively and intentionally come to a table together to remember and receive the “charis” (grace, gifts) of Christ.
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Often we neglect the fact that being a follower of Christ comes with persecution because we think persecution is only being put to death or made a public mockery of for the Faith. Today we explore those who are persecuted, for they shall inherit the Kingdom of God.
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John Driver explores what Jesus really means when we talks about the blessing that follows those who are “pure in heart” from a gospel lens, revealing the true nature of our hearts and an invitation to rightly-aligned confidence. Then there are the peacemakers, those who know that they are ill-equipped to settle and judge the infinite conflicts in society and relationships that swirl around us— but there is a way to think and act like actual children of a trustworthy Judge and merciful Father.
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