Kingdom Focused Over "Us" Mentality

Salt Lake City will not be changed by any single congregation or denomination or leader. Instead, it will be redeemed and renewed when God’s people band together in prayer, serving, giving, fasting for the community persistently. This practice/conviction understands that unity of the larger body is essential in seeing more people come to know Jesus in the community. In fact, Jesus prayed this in John 17 when He said in v. 21, “may they all be one as You are in Me and I am in You so that they world may believe that You have sent Me.” And the result of biblical unity isn’t just individual people coming to Jesus but God’s favor and blessings being poured out on the rest of the community in areas of education, politics, economics, marriages, parents, reduction of crime and homelessness, etc. People will see themselves, their local church as apart of a larger kingdom family.

Practically speaking, how this gets played out is when a person/family has a need that Sandy Ridge is not meeting then they will not think I need to leave and find a church that meets that need but will go to the larger body of Christ to meet that particular need. There is beauty in that. Another way this gets played out is every year there are certain events where churches gather together to pray, praise God through singing, volunteer for an event that churches come together to carry out, or fight for injustice. Those are the times when we see that as a priority to come and participate.