Back to the Future: Covenant Community

We are concluding our mini-series, “Back to the Future,” with the premise that sometimes we must go back to go forward. God’s basics are firm foundations that we must revisit wherever God is leading us into the future. (1) As we started 2024 looking forward, we looked back to the foundation that God’s Word requires us to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with our God according to Micah 6:8. Walking humbly with God is core because doing justice and showing loving kindness will follow since that is God’s nature and character. (2) Then we affirmed that walking with God is a relationship that requires consistent and honest communication known as prayer. As we entered into 21 days of prayer and fasting to nurture and strengthen our walk with God, prayer is required to grow closer to God. (3) Then going back to the future means a consistent commitment to service and missions, especially towards the least and the lost as Christ commanded and modeled for us. (4) We affirmed the solid foundation of soul friends. It is a fundamental and core truth that we need one another for support, accountability, and encouragement as we walk with God on this spiritual journey. (5) Last, the focus of covenant community is that God has called us to be a family before God and family to one another. God has placed us in a larger community as brothers and sisters serving one Lord as one body and the family of God. God has uniquely called and shaped the family of South Bay Community Church. We are an interdependent, interconnected community who are together connecting with God, growing together, and changing the world. Through worship, we assemble to hear the Word of God, serve God and one another, and fellowship. We affirm the truth of God’s vision for us that we are God’s family connected in a community by covenant.