It was around the year A.D. 55, in what the Roman Empire called Asia Minor, that an obscure Jewish rabbi-turned-Christian missionary named Paul wrote these words:

God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not holding their sins against them, and has entrusted to us this message of reconciliation.
(2 Corinthians 5:19)

Earlier in his life, Paul had been one of the most vehement critics and persecutors of Christians.  He had devoted his life to wiping out these people, whom he deemed blasphemous heretics.  Then, in a conversion that cannot be explained away, he encountered God’s radical grace through a vision of the risen Jesus.

We, like Paul and the men and women who became Christians through hearing the message of Jesus, describe ourselves as people who have been transformed by God.  We believe and do many things as a church: worshiping God, exploring the Bible, spending our lives together.  But everything rests on this foundation of faith: that we are all broken, imperfect people who desperately need God’s grace, that He forgives us through Jesus Christ, and that He wants us to hold up this gospel (“good news”) for the world to hear so it too can be transformed.

As we worship, work, and live together as a “church of Christ” (our description, not our title), we do our best to allow the teachings of Jesus to shape who we are and who we want to become.