STUDIO

STUDIO

STUDIO is a place where God and people meet – where beautiful things happen, and beautiful things are created. With lead Pastors and Founders, Eric and Candace Johnson, our talks cover a wide range of topics on Faith, Creativity, Culture, and Community. STUDIO is located in beautiful Greenville, South Carolina. For more info, visit studiogreenville.com. Or better yet, come visit us for one of our gatherings or events.

  1. Sep 22

    ASK. SEEK. KNOCK. | An Invitation to Pray

    As we move into the new season, we come hungry for more of God - to commune with Him, and to step into all that He has for us. Last week we took time as a community, in prayer and fasting, to intentionally humble ourselves and seek the Lord. Before we move forward, we want to pause. To seek His heart. To get His perspective. To hear what He is saying. To surrender our will & plans and make room for His. And that's what prayer does. Prayer is how we turn our hearts toward God. In Matthew 7:7-11, Jesus gives us an incredible invitation. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Jesus is teaching us that God is approachable. And then He gives us this picture: If your child asks you for bread, are you going to give them a stone? If they ask for a fish, are you going to give them a snake? And Jesus says: “How much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” Prayer is not approaching a reluctant God. We're approaching a good Father. When God uses that name it comes with an invitation, it comes with great love, and access. It also requires us to know and trust who He is a good Father. For us to commune and pray it requires trust. As we approach God, we come with all that we are, all that we need, and all that He is calling us into accessing God as a Father who loves us. We bring Him what we're carrying: Our needs. Our fears. Our questions. Our hopes. Our sickness. Our relationships. Our finances. Our future. And we say, “Father, I trust You with this.” As we step into this new season we want to grow in participating in what God is inviting us into in prayer and be a responsive people. The invitation is, what if we stopped praying safe prayers and came to God full of faith, courage and prayed audacious prayers? What would we ask God for? For more info, you can go to our website, check us out on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube. If you would like to support STUDIO financially, you can do so here. Have a great week!

  2. Sep 15

    Who's Sitting At Your Table

    Last Sunday we continued our conversation around the Unity of the Spirit by asking a very practical question: What happens when the people Jesus brings to the table don’t agree with each other? Because unity would be easy if we all thought alike! In Romans 14, Paul writes to a community navigating very real disagreements about faith, food, sacred days, traditions, and how to faithfully follow Jesus. And rather than telling everyone to simply agree, Paul gives them a radically different way to see one another. A few ideas we explored: Unity of the Spirit, ask me to trust Jesus with people I disagree with.Don’t confuse different expressions of faithfulness with an absence of faithfulness.The person across from me is Christ’s servant, not mine.Jesus is capable of forming people whose convictions may be different from my own.Unity of the Spirit isn’t about making everyone at the table more like me. It’s about all of us belonging to Jesus.Imagine a table filled with people from different generations, cultures, church traditions, economic realities, political perspectives, and life experiences. And Jesus says, “You’re family.” What a beautiful invitation. What if the Church could become the place where our differences don’t have to disappear for love, belonging, humility, curiosity, and genuine relationship to flourish? That’s the kind of community we want us to keep becoming. For more info, you can go to our website, check us out on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube. If you would like to support STUDIO financially, you can do so here. Have a great week!

  3. Sep 8

    New Humanity

    This past Sunday we explored something Paul writes about called the "unity of the Spirit," we learned he isn't talking about everyone thinking the same, looking the same, or sharing the same preferences. He's describing something far more remarkable and dynamic. The early church brought together people who, for centuries, would never have shared the same table. Different ethnicities. Different histories. Different traditions. Different ways of seeing the world. Yet in Christ, God wasn't simply creating a better version of those divisions. He was creating one new humanity. Here are a few ideas we explored together: Biblical unity is not the absence of difference. It is the absence of hostility in the presence of difference because Christ has made us one.Unity isn't something we create. It's a reality Christ has already established that we are called to protect and preserve.Uniformity moves people toward me. Unity moves all of us toward Christ.The movement of unity isn't getting people to become more like us. It's moving together toward the new reality Christ has already created.One of the applications that emerged from this passage is our vision of becoming a Home for Humanity. A community where people from different stories, backgrounds, perspectives, and seasons of life discover that Christ is greater than the things that have historically divided us. For more info, you can go to our website, check us out on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube. If you would like to support STUDIO financially, you can do so here. Have a great week!

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STUDIO is a place where God and people meet – where beautiful things happen, and beautiful things are created. With lead Pastors and Founders, Eric and Candace Johnson, our talks cover a wide range of topics on Faith, Creativity, Culture, and Community. STUDIO is located in beautiful Greenville, South Carolina. For more info, visit studiogreenville.com. Or better yet, come visit us for one of our gatherings or events.

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