So how do you know when you are doing the Christian life right? How do you know when you are good at it? It's as simple as a game of ten pins!

Why we Bowl the Christian Life at Neighborhood Church

The first pin is Discovery.
Focusing on the one pin in the first row, the new possibility that God offered in Jesus Christ commonly begins for people with the profound discovery that we matter to God. This is why Jesus told the parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost son. Those parables have five ideas in common:
1. Something of great value is lost.
2. In response to loss there is an all-out search or an anguished vigil.
3. When the lost is found, there is a great celebration.
4. God searches like the shepherd, the woman, and the father.
5. He does this because like the sheep, the coin, and the son, we matter supremely to the searcher.
It was St. Augustine that said “God loves each one of us as if there was only one of us to love.”

1. I am growing in my intimacy with God and faithfulness to his Word.
This vital sign is demonstrated in my life by spending time with God through prayer, worship, listening to Him, reading the Bible and actively living out His principles in my life.