Missional Family Dinner | Wednesdays | 6:00-8:30pm

Check the Slack for details and sign up to bring a dish or email Kala at admin@porchsf.com for more info.

Fall Retreat | September 9-11, 2022

Save the date for our church-wide fall retreat in Mariposa.

Apostles Creed

I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended to heaven
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty.
From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy universal church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.

1 Corinthians 15:12-26

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.

For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

"Eternal life is a bit much to expect from a dead savior.” —John Frame

“The Resurrection is the most important article of our faith." —John Calvin

"The resurrection of our divine Lord from the dead is the cornerstone of Christian doctrine. Perhaps I might more accurately call it the keystone of the arch of Christianity, for if that fact could be disproved, the whole fabric of the gospel would fall to the ground.” —Charles Spurgeon

"The divinity of Christ finds its surest proof in his resurrection (Rom. 1:4). Christ’s sovereignty also depends on his resurrection (Rom. 14:9). Again, our justification hangs on Christ’s resurrection (Rom. 4:25). Our very regeneration depends on his resurrection (1 Peter 1:3). And most certainly our ultimate resurrection rests here (Rom. 8:11). The silver thread of resurrection runs through all the blessings, from regeneration onward to our eternal glory, and binds them together.” —Charles Spurgeon

“Jewish resurrection belief rules out any possibility that the belief in Christ’s resurrection could have generated spontaneously from within its Jewish context. When we ask the early Christians themselves what had occasioned this belief, their answers home in on two things: ...Jesus’ tomb being empty... him appearing to people, alive again.

Many of the messianic movements between roughly 150 BC and AD 150 ended with the violent death of the founder. When this happened, there were two options open to any who escaped death: they could give up the movement, or they could find themselves another Messiah. The followers of a dead prophet could of course go on believing that he was a true prophet....

But with a would-be Messiah, who was supposed to be inaugurating the kingdom, it was impossible. Nobody, after all, believed that the Messiah would be raised from the dead; nobody was expecting any such thing. Clinging to the belief that the recently executed person was after all the Messiah was simply not an option” —NT Wright

“Greek philosophers who believed that, when we die, our souls enter another world but our bodies perish forever. Unlike many philosophers today, they believed that though the body perished, the soul was immortal. Plato, for one, taught that the soul is imprisoned by the body. When someone dies, Plato said, his soul escapes the body like a bird escapes from its cage. For Greek philosophers, the soul was everything; the body, nothing. It was even less than nothing; it was the soul’s prison.” —Joel Beeke

“I've been a Christian for ages, and I still ask questions. But I make sure I ask hard questions not just about Christianity but also about the alternatives, including atheism. Every time I do, find that Christianity-crazy as it might sometimes sound- is actually the most believable option.” —Rebecca McLaughlin

What The Resurrection Means For Us
- It validates the teachings of Jesus
- It gives us confidence in our salvation
- It gives us hope in our own resurrection