Why Church | What is the Church?

To grow is to stay at the beginning. What does this mean? That we must consistently draw our Christian life from the essentials of our faith. And one of the primary essentials to our faith is the church. But why is this? And what are the reasons we attend each week? This series aims to get us thinking about the answer to this question. In this sermon Pastor Joel kicks us off by walking us through the church is an embassy of reconciliation, the reconciliation between God and the world that is being enacted through Jesus. We are ambassadors of this message and the church is the place where the foreign soil of reconciliation manifests in our world. Reconciliation works itself out in the church in 3 ways: 1 Reconciliation back to God through creating counter habits of worship that point us back to the beginning of our faith, 2 Reconciliation to one another through true interconnectivity as opposed to false interconnectivity through by digital means, and 3 Reconciliation of all our thought under the Lordship of Christ a foreign idea to us that we learn through gathering as a church in many ways. We unpack these three ideas of reconciliation in this weeks message. Join us as we grow by returning to the beginning