You become like what you worship

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Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.

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You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

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God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

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The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

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The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

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Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved

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True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

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If you have never felt or known the sheer power and strength of God's love, take another look at Jesus dying on the cross.

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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

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