Last  week we began a journey that we're going to be on for a while. It's a journey to answer what seems like a simple question, but is actually many-layered and multi-textured: What do you need, like, really need, to live into the abundant life Jesus said He was all about? What do you need in your day-to-day life as a Jesus follower, and what do you need in a church family? The answers to those questions are going to matter a lot as we seek to understand where the Lord is leading us a church family.

Throughout the recent "maturity" series, we framed maturity in Christ as a kind of target, a sort of bullseye for your life and mine. Understanding our needs and getting them met in healthy ways is so closely aligned with the maturity process that it's indecipherable from it. We're going to explore why.