This week Pastor Rowe invited us to pause and ask a searching question: who are you becoming?
As we continue exploring truth, goodness, and beauty in a digital age, in this message we turned our focus to goodness. Not just as a feeling or a pleasant experience, but as something deeper. Goodness is discovered when something becomes what it was designed to be. It flourishes in harmony with its purpose. And as people created in the image of God, we are designed to reflect His goodness in the way we live.
Through the life of Daniel, we saw what it looks like to cultivate a will in love with goodness. Taken into a foreign culture, fully immersed in a system that sought to reshape him, Daniel chose differently. Over a lifetime of prayer, Scripture, friendship, and steady obedience, he formed habits that anchored him. When pressure came, his response was not reactive. It flowed from who he had already become.
Pastor Rowe highlighted three key challenges shaping us today: our ethical choices, our relational connections, and our personal health. In a culture of rapid information, digital distraction, and artificial affirmation, we are constantly being formed. The question is not whether we are being shaped, but by what.
Goodness requires intention. It calls us to dig deeper than headlines, to cultivate real relationships rather than curated ones, and to care for our physical, mental, and emotional health in tangible ways. It invites us to develop daily habits that root us in Scripture before other voices shape our thinking. We were reminded that becoming people of goodness is steady, courageous, and formed over time. It begins with choosing Jesus. As we follow Him, He shapes us into the image we were always created to bear.
The invitation is simple but profound. Choose. Choose what you feed your mind. Choose who you gather with. Choose the habits that will form your future. And above all, choose to follow Christ, allowing His goodness to shape who you are becoming.
