There is a difference between being somewhere and belonging there.

You can spend years in a place, enjoying it, taking it in, even loving it, and never once feel that any of it is yours to carry. Plenty of us live that way somewhere: at work, in a city, even in church.

In week four of House Style we come to the fourth of this church’s five values: service. It doesn’t start with what the church needs from you. It starts with the night Jesus, the one person in the room with every right to be served, got down on the floor instead.

This message is about who you are, who you are really serving, and how far it goes.

Serving is not the price of belonging. It is what belonging looks like.

This is message four of House Style.