I am often asked the question, or some variation of the question, “How are things going at Mosaic?”. I usually find this question hard to answer. If I reply simply, “good”, ten people may have ten different ideas of what exactly “good” means. For instance, If I say that I am having a good day, I likely mean that things seem to be going my way and no one has offended me too terribly today. If a refugee in the Congo says that they are having a good day, they likely mean that they’ve had food to eat and no one has tried to harm them or their loved ones today. For those in the Congo my “good” day is much more than that, it’s a great day, an amazing day, a miraculous day!
So the answer to the question is really all about the context of the situation. What is the context of Mosaic’s situation? Well, we are just under two years old now. Imagine with me if you will the similarities between a two year old child, and a two year old church.
A two year old is just beginning to discover their self-identity, they know their name, they know who they are.
A two year old is just beginning to feed themselves, still with some help of course. They are no longer completely dependent on someone else to sustain them, but they cannot yet sustain themselves.
A two year old is learning how to walk and what their boundaries are. They are learning where they can go, what they can do; as well as where they should not go and what they should not do.
A two year old is learning new things at an amazing rate. Much of this learning comes through trial and error, or sometimes just plain old failure.
A two year old is learning how to use the potty (not trying to be crude, but stick with me). They don’t yet know how to properly deal with all of their junk, and sometimes they still need someone else’s help to clean up their messes.
A two year old can be beautifully creative, free, enthusiastic, joyful, and fun to be around. They do and say things that at one time make us laugh with joy and at others marvel at their seemingly overwhelming understanding of things which we believe they should not yet grasp.
A two year old has unlimited imagination of what could be and often re-uses old things in new ways that we never thought of before. A two year old has nothing but potential ahead of them.
So if you understand Mosaic as a two year old church, then we are doing much more than good, we are doing great, amazingly, miraculously! Are we accomplishing the same things that a 10 year old church might? No…but we are, by the grace of God and the service of His people, a strong and healthy two year old with nothing but potential ahead of us.