Neighborhood Church

"Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of Western Culture for almost twenty centuries. If it were possible, with some sort of super magnet, to pull up out of the history every scrap of metal bearing at least a trace of his name, how much would be left?"
Jaroslav Pelikan

“At the first onset of the disease, they pushed the sufferers away and fled from their dearest, throwing them into the roads before they were dead and treated unburied corpses as dirt, hoping thereby to avert the spread and contagion of the fatal disease.”
St. Dionysius

"Heedless of the danger, they took charge of the sick, attending to their every need and ministering to them in Christ. And with them departed this life serenely happy, for they were infected by others with the disease, drawing on themselves the sickness of their neighbors and cheerfully accepting their pains."
St. Dionysius

"Lepers have been made in the image of God. In the same way, you and I have, and perhaps preserve that image better than we, let us take care of Christ while there is still time. Let us minister to Christ’s needs. Let us give Christ nourishment. Let us clothe Christ. Let us gather Christ in. Let us show Christ honor."
Gregory of Nyssa

Jesus For Everyone
#1 Who was Jesus?
#2 When and Where Did Jesus Live?
#3 What Did Jesus Teach?
#4 Why Did Jesus Die?
#5 How Do We Follow Jesus?

"If Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?”
N.T. Wright

Son of Man
Messiah
Son of God

Who Is Jesus?
Jesus is A REVEALER

Jesus makes life better and makes you better at life.

Who Is Jesus?
Jesus is A RESCUER

"With Jesus, God’s rescue operation has been put into effect once and for all. A great door has swung open in the cosmos, which can never again be shut. It’s the door to the prison where we’ve been kept chained up. We are offered freedom: freedom to experience God’s rescue for ourselves, to go through the open door and explore the new world to which we now have access.
N.T. Wright

Who Is Jesus?
Jesus is A RULER

Jesus + Nothing = Everything