We want to make it hard for people to go to hell by making it easy for them to go to church so they can experience, know and follow JESUS. Everyone’s WELCOME, because nobody’s PERFECT and anything’s POSSIBLE.
Matthew 9:9 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Matthew got up and followed him.
Religious Leaders: CHANGE and you can JOIN us.
Jesus: JOIN us and you’ll CHANGE.
Matthew 9:10-11 Later, Matthew invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. But when the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with such scum?”
Community is at its best when it embraces both GRACE and TRUTH.
I am a MESS, and I need GOD.
“We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful. We are like the passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain’s table.”—THE BIG BOOK
Galatians 3:28 There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.
1 John 1:8-9 If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
Following Jesus compels us to see people not for who they ARE TODAY but for who they could BECOME TOMORROW.
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