Heart of the City: Big Plans

What big plans does God have for FUMC Denton? If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that God’s plans for us are always bigger than the ones we have for ourselves. As we’ve studied Jeremiah 29, we’ve learned that Israel would spend 70 years in Exile. For many, it was the only home they’d ever known. By contributing to the community in which they had been planted, they were not only transforming their newly adopted home for good and for God, in the process, they were making it a better place for their own families as well. Like Israel, we are asked to seek the welfare of the city trusting that our wellbeing or shalom (wholistic flourishing) is intertwined with the wellbeing of Denton. Says the prophet in Jeremiah 29:11, God has plans for our good, to give us a future with hope both as a church and as a community. Today, we talk about what God’s hope-filled future for the city might look like and how we can participate in it.