A City of Light
September 25, 2008 by Sarah Austin · Comments Off
The beam that shines from the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas is the brightest in the world. On a clear night, it can be seen from Los Angeles.
I cannot get this light out of my head; it has been haunting me for days. As we study for City on a Hill, I’m reminded that cities are places of light, and I’m trying to wrap my brain around God’s Word being a light to my path and Christ-followers being a light to the world. All this in the shadow of the Luxor…
Yes, we are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Why? Because of its light. Lights, actually. The light of a city is not comprised of one lamp; its hundreds and thousands and millions of individual lights—individual Christ-followers—that make the light of the city so bright and so magnetizing.
When one light joins forces with another and then another, shadows are erased. Darkness is pushed a little farther away, and the cumulative light becomes stronger than the sum of the individual lights. In design, we call this Gestalt Theory, that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
LifePoint’s mission is leading people to be Christ-followers in life … together. God wants to accomplish something in us together. He’s calling us to be more than a city of lights; he’s calling us to be a city of light.
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