This Is Us
We do not want to hide who we are, nor do we want to bait and switch our guest. So, this is us.
We are a gathering of Christ followers who strive to Love God, Love People and Make Disciples.
Loving God
1 John 4:10 & 19 says, 10 "And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins." 19 "We love because He first loved us." Once we realize how much God loves us we can start to grasp the concept of loving him back. As Christians, everything we do flows out of our love for God. The out-pouring of love for God as a part of who we are will overflow into the rest of our lives. Loving God makes us better children, better parents, better employees, and better neighbors. The more we can grasp the love of God and our love for God, the more fulfilled our lives will be.
Loving Others
1 John 4:20 say, 20 "Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen." One way, and we think the best way, to love God is to love his creation. Human beings are the prize creation of God, they are his image bearers. Jesus told us, in Matthew 22, that loving your neighbor as yourself is a command that is quote "like the first" which is "Love the Lord your God." Of course we fall short in this task on a daily basis but for us there is no greater way to show our God we love Him than to love the people around us.
Making Disciples
Matthew 28:19-20 say, 19"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” The word for disciple originates from a word that means learner or pupil. We want all to believe in who Christ is but we are not interested in merely reaching people to believe in Christ; we want them to become disciples of Christ. The most loving thing one can do for another is lead them to Christ and one of the most loving things we can do for a believer in Christ is to help them become a disciple of Christ. We feel you cannot separate loving people from loving God and you also cannot separate making disciples from loving people. Therefore we cannot separate making disciples from our basic call to love God.