Jesus told his disciples they would do even greater works than he did.

One of those works is to faithfully follow our calling after the age of 33! We have watched many in our family not keep faith after their thirties. Sometimes it feels like an old Christian is hard to find! Many inhabiting the dying churches of the Philadelphia region don’t seem more alive in faith or even deploying their gifts!

We’re ambitious.

We hope people become mature Jesus followers as quickly as we can help each other and then swim the depths of grace -- becoming even more robust and valuable to the cause of Christ in the world! Instead of presenting a Christianity one can consume and dispose of, we hope to lay out eternity and be brave enough to receive it all.

The newborn believer needs to take brave new steps. A more mature believer needs to keep taking them. Paul told Timothy when he was old:

📖 As for me, I am already being poured out as a libation, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. From now on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have longed for his appearing (2 Timothy 4:6-7)

New steps are not easy

📖 As for what fell among the thorns, these are the ones who hear; but as they go on their way, they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature (Luke 8:14)