In Community With God

“I’m fractured from a fall, and I want to go home.”

So says singer-songwriter Ryan Adams. Ryan hits a feel that we believe is basic to all humans: we have beauty inherent in us, however, we are broken, and we want to be made whole again.

Many of us look for wholeness in a lot of the same places. Sex, drugs, success, popularity—just to name a few. The common thread between all these is that we try to stimulate nerve endings in hopes of appeasing the longing for wholeness that we have inside. But they never work. They always leave us feeling more broken than before.

We long for many things: beauty, relationship, justice, a place to belong. We believe that the deepest longings of our life all meet in the person of Jesus Christ. As he hung on the cross, our deepest longing for beauty and justice met. His accomplishment on the cross provided a place for us to belong and the relationship that we’ve always longed for.

We want a place to belong: Not a location, but rather a community to belong to. In God, we have that. The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit provide the perfect community, the perfect family, to belong to. They created us, they recreated us, and they gratefully accept us just as we are.

We believe that the God who created the world also sent his Son to recreate the world, and His Spirit to tell the world and we believe that we were designed to live life and walk with our (re)Creator.