Countryside Christian Church
Sometimes, the road seems too difficult. The journey can be long, the path uncertain, and the end nowhere in sight. It seems so much easier to turn around, to give up, to go by the wayside. But you have come too far to stop now. His love started you on this journey and His love will finish it. Love that is so wide, so long, so high, and so deep. We won’t stop now. His love never stops. We won’t either. Sundays in July.
Ephesians 3:14-21 NIV
The church is the place where lines get bent into circles.
Galatians 3:26-28 NIV
We are called not to notice what's different but to notice what we all have in common.
You can begin to have community with any christian you come into contact with because you have something in common: we are all made in the image of God.
At the core of all of us we were created for connection.
Genesis 2:18 NIV
First effect of the sin wound is now evident: Now the world is full of shame and there is a flow of a fig leaf culture which we all currently live in.
John 17:22-23 NIV
Jesus desire is that we may be one as He is one with the Father.
Matthew 18:15 NIV
Matthew 18:15 NIV
The flow of a fig leaf world mentality is destructive.
Jesus longs that we would have the kind of relationships where we talk to each other instead of talking about each other.
When we bend lines into circles it is one of the most powerful witnesses of Gods Love to the world.
We are called to be connected and to connect the disconnected.
"...Be at peace with each other." Mark 9:50
"...Wash one another's feet." John 13:14
"...Love one another..." John 13:34
Honor one another above yourselves. Romans 12:10
"Live in harmony with one another..." Romans 12:16
"Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you..." Romans 15:7
"...Instruct one another." Romans 15:14
"Carry each other's burdens..." Galatians 6:2
"...Be patient, bearing with one another in love." Ephesians 4:2