More To Family

So I have decided to start a blog since I've seen a few others start one lately. It'll take a bit for me to get used to it but please hang in with me :)


For my first blog ever, I want to share a word I've had on my heart for the last couple of days. This one single word is so close to my heart and that word is: family. Family is know all over the world as "blood" or "being related", but today my mind thought of it a different way.

Yesterday during touch time at ACC South Campus we were asked to do something different and that was to go around and say something we were thankful for instead of going around for prayer requests and praying for one another. The one thing that came to my mind as soon as I got into my group was "I'm thankful for my church family". I began to describe that I feel more free to go to my church family than to the one's I'm related to. I looked at the people in my group and couldn't help but smile and just be like I said, thankful.

Today as I was working and having time to just think about everything, the thought of loving my church family popped back into my mind. In that time I thought wait a second, I'm not even related to any of them yet they are like family to me. Being a family to me in the body of Christ has nothing to do with "being related" but as a matter of fact it does have to do with the word "blood". Not the AB, O negative, B positive, or whatever....Jesus' blood that was shed on the cross to forgive our sins. Jesus' blood is the reason why we all can stand together as brothers and sisters in the freedom we have in him and the victory He won. Yes, we are His sons and daughters which makes us all brothers and sisters in Christ.

As I was looking around Atlanta City Church yesterday during the most incredible worship service I've had in a long time, I was looking upon my fellow brothers and sisters and that gave me the best feeling in my heart. The feeling of being brothers and sisters by Jesus' blood and His sacrifice makes me thankful and proud to look at the ACC congregation and say to myself "this is my family, and i'm so honored to have the privilege to call them brothers and sisters".

To end this long blog from my heart, I want to say to all who read this: thank you for being my family. I am so honored to know every single one of you. I will always stand by my family no matter what! All of you will forever mean the world to me!