How has your understanding or concept of God changed over the course of your life?
Reflecting on Week 2’s opening question of the Next Steps Course, Original Design, I often wonder how our understanding of God evolves over time.
This question reminds me of our beautiful journey as believers, continually discovering the depths of God’s love and His original design for our lives.
It’s a journey marked by grace, resembling a story of rescue, restoration, and redemption—the most wonderful fairy tale that has come true in real life, fulfilling our hearts’ deepest longings: the reign of the King and His Kingdom.
It is a journey where we learn the need to turn away from false, functional saviors that perpetually warp and twist God’s original design for us. You know, the functional saviors of greed, career, possessions, approval, pride, power, fame—and many more.
Instead, we desperately learn to embrace the true Savior, Jesus Christ, bringing glory to God in all our worship as He originally designed us to do from the beginning into eternity.
As Jesus foretold, this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come (Matthew 24:14).
We’ll prayerfully reflect on Jesus’ foretelling as a timely reminder of our burden to intercede for those who have yet to encounter Jesus’ love, specifically our Muslim brothers and sisters, who, like us, are made in God’s image.
As the Nation of Islam commences the observance of Ramadan, beginning on Sunday, March 10th and concluding on Tuesday, April 9th, over 2 billion Muslims worldwide embark on their spiritual journey.
Let’s join together in prayer, asking God for the hearts of our Muslim brothers and sisters in Fort Worth and beyond to be awakened to the truth of the Gospel of Jesus as the One true Savior and to turn away from a reliance on functional saviors.
For when we do… Our happily ever after rescue story becomes their rescue story, which ultimately is His story—the Story of the Hero, Jesus, coming from heaven to earth to save the lost and dwell as the eternal King in His everlasting Kingdom.
God’s original design from beginning to end, forever and ever. Amen!
See you on Zoom at 12 pm sharp!
God bless,
Pastor Alvin & Mallary Brown
alvin@makingamosaic.com :: mallary@makingamosaic.com
General Prayer Requests & Updates
For evangelism to flourish so communities and campuses in the greater Fort Worth area will be reached, and the lost will see and experience the love of Christ and be drawn to his kingdom.
For signs and wonders to follow the preaching of His Word.
For team unity and laborers to help carry the load.
For finances and provisions.
For fully funded campus missionaries (2 per campus) to help reach the next generation — Texas Christian University (TCU), Tarrant County College (TCC), Texas Wesleyan University (TWU) and Tarleton State University – Fort Worth (TSU), University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), and Dallas Baptist University (DBU).
Alvin Brown, the Lead Pastor of Mosaic Church Fort Worth, brings over a decade of pastoral ministry experience and more than 20 years of operational and technical leadership expertise. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications Management from DeVry University and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. He enjoys spending quality time with his wife, Mallary, and their three children and contributing as a writer to various media outlets.
