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Learning to live is what we are about and how we articulate our mission as a church.
When we say we're learning from and living for Christ, it means we want to help people know and trust God. It means that we want to actually apply the truths from the Bible in our everyday lives. It means orienting our lives more and more around the kingdom of God—loving what He loves, investing ourselves in His purposes, and engaging the world with biblical grace and truth.
Some people have boiled down Christianity into a set of beliefs. You are "in" if you believe the right things, but there's no expectation of changed lives. Jesus, however, talked about both eternal life and the abundant life now. Ephesians 2:8-10 says this:
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
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Let's be clear: we are not saved by works, only by faith. Faith comes first and then it produces a life full of meaning and purpose and good works. So our mission as a church is to help people fully embrace Jesus Christ as the Savior and then to learn to live as his kingdom-minded followers.
All because He first loved us!
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