Finding peace in anxiety-filled relationships
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Finding peace in anxiety-filled relationships
Finding peace in anxiety-filled relationships | Friday, January 29, 2021
Kelly Williams is co-founder and senior pastor of Vanguard Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. | Courtesy of Kelly Williams
2020 gave all of us time to relive the story of our lives and especially the relationships of our lives that are broken. It caused us to take relational inventory. If you are anything like me, this created some incredible tension and anxiety inside of you regarding the lackluster of some of the relationships of your life.
I am tempted to take matters into my own hands as well, just like Peter. But Jesus is telling us not to. He is asking us, imploring us, to allow this to be a time to be more Christian than American.
I am not waiting for God to change the pain of my life to become His witness. I am asking God to use my pain to advance His Gospel and make Himself known to others through me.
I can’t think of anyone better than the Apostle Paul to regain perspective from. If it could be experienced, he experienced it and kept living for Jesus. That’s what we want to do.
Christmas Eve usually ranks as the second-largest service at New Life Church, drawing some 15,000 people to the massive evangelical Christian campus in northern Colorado Springs.
This year, a remote-only broadcast that’s been recorded and will play online all day Thursday will be available.
“You can’t put that many people in a room safely,” Senior Pastor Brady Boyd said. “We feel it would be too big of a risk.”
Even though capacity limits have been lifted at churches across Colorado following a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, facial coverings, social distancing and sanitization practices are still required under the state’s COVID-19 policies pertaining to indoor public spaces.