Kaleo San Diego Church

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.  42  And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.  Acts 2:41-42  

The incredible power of the Gospel is demonstrated in the second chapter of Acts.  Peter stands to proclaim what God was doing and when he finishes the response is overwhelming. The hearers were cut to the heart and threw down their allegiance to their own agendas and cast themselves upon the one proclaimed in this 'good news,' Jesus the Christ.  The listening crowd was as diverse as one could imagine.  They came from different regions, with different languages, different philosophies and various ways of seeing this world.  Yet they were now joined together by a person, a person that came to gather a people out of this world, to be sent into the world, for the sake of the world.  A people bound together by the death and resurrection of this anointed One, and now closer to one another than they were their own blood relatives. This newly formed community was baptized into the stream of history and grafted into a family stretching back to Abraham. What made them uncommon to one another (language, cultural norms, traditions and religious ideologies), was swallowed up into this grand, overarching story of the world where they found their true hope and meaning as sons and daughters of God the Father.  The decisions they made, the lives they lived, and the mission they were called to as a family formed their role in this world and shaped their identity to be a people radically for this world. 

One of the great gifts God gave the church is Spirit inspired prayer.  This newly formed community of 3,000 in chapter two gathered together each day and devoted themselves to the Gospel Story taught by the Apostles and to have close fellowship with one another as they broke bread together and prayed with glad and generous hearts.  This gift of prayer was catalytic in empowering the church to break out on mission, in comforting the church in times of persecution and was essential to the church when making decisions for their future.  God had given them the Spirit to inspire creativity and to guide them as they embarked on a journey that had the ends of the earth on its horizon.  There were no manuals, no seminars, not even church planting experts.  Just a people shaped by a Gospel bigger than their own sin and more powerful than the powers of this world who committed themselves to praying for this truth to be worked out among them by grace.  

They prayed so that the Gospel would break loose in their midst and flood the world.  The early church was most definitely a praying church.  This didn't mean they didn't plan, but it did mean they understood that their best of plans were useless if they didn't submit all their ideas and dreams to the One who heard and delighted in answering their prayers according to His will.  And answer them He did.  This Gospel has come to us all these years later by a gracious God using a faithful people so that we too can be caught up in this great drama of redemptive history.  

We are still God's people in God's world with God's glorious Gospel of His outrageous grace and the ends of the earth on our horizon.  We venture out from our homes into our neighborhoods and workplace as we ask God in prayer to keep using His church to litter our great city with communities of light and to set ablaze our hearts to love Him more than anything and to love our neighbors as ourselves.

This brings us to why we're asking you attend our prayer and planning meetings.  We've begun to gather quarterly as a family and submit our plans and dreams to our Father in prayer.  We gathered last Monday to ask each other for wisdom, to discuss what God seems be calling us to and to bind every request in prayer as we ushered our hopes to His throne room of grace.  We need each of you that care for Kaleo and call this church home to come out with us to seek God's face and ask Him to do for us what He's lovingly done for our brothers and sisters before us. 

We'll announce our next gathering in the near future and pray that you'll make the time to join us.