Whatever It Takes...

Whatever it takes to share the love of Christ with one more person - whatever it takes to find one more lost sheep - whatever it takes to bring one soul closer to the healing power of God – that’s what we’ll do.

That bothers some people. Some believe that we should be more reverent, quieter, more dignified, more traditional, more holy, more religious. We don’t. We believe that we should pursue God and His children with the same reckless abandon that King David did (you know David – from the David and Goliath story). We will become fools for our Lord – and for the people who don’t know Him yet.

There’s nothing wrong with tradition. There’s nothing wrong with the “old ways.” There’s nothing wrong with dressing up and being quiet. But if that doesn’t help us connect with people and share the love that God has for him, we’ll try something else – anything else – until all have heard that God made them for a purpose and loves them unconditionally. There are plenty of churches in town that will maintain the traditions of the past. We pray that God will bless them with spiritual and numeric growth. We know that we aren’t the church that everybody in this community is gonna want to attend. But we believe that we are the church that has been given the mission of reaching a segment of this community that no one else is. And we’ll do whatever it takes to reach them.

Our Vision is that one day everyone in this community will know that God loves them and that all who call themselves followers of Jesus Christ will be united in mind, heart, and spirit just as Jesus prayed before He went to the Cross:

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.” ( John 17:20-23)