Friday, October 26, 2018

RECOGNIZING MY SINFULNESS

“If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way less detestable than the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Whole Church, Whole Gospel, Whole World

Core Values

#1 We value Jesus above all else - We are His church.
#2 We value life change - Your past is not your future.
#3 We value active faith - We are contributors, not consumers.
#4 We value authenticity - Real relationships require real people.
#5 We value global impact – We live everyday on mission.

We embrace the responsibility to show and share Jesus to our neighbors and to the nations. (2 Corinthians 5:20; Acts 1:8)

The Whole Church with the power of the Whole Gospel for the Whole World - - that is Global Impact! That is our core value! 

-- Sean Simonton (a friend and classmate from Seminary).

Monday, October 1, 2018

EVEN YOUR DYSFUNCTION

At some point you begin to realize that everything you've been through in your life, the loss, pain and sickness, the failures and successes, the love and abuse, even your dysfunction. All of it is according to God's plan and his will for your life. I'm astounded that God uses me as I am. Why would he use someone like me?
For his glory alone.
For his glory alone.
For his glory alone.
Soli Deo Gloria

Obedience versus Moralism

Many people seem to confuse a call to obedience with moralism.
Moralism is a heresy which trusts in obedience or morality, at least partly, for salvation. But the regenerate Christian, when he hears God's law knows he can't lift a finger to obey of his own power, so it drives him to Christ from whence the power to obey flows. In other words obedience flows from the cross and does not contribute to it. We obey, not in order to be saved, but because we are. And when we dont the Spirit causes us to mourn over it, driving to the cross both for forgiveness and for the power to overcome sin.