Understanding Judgement

For 2020, we're spending the entire year exploring the Bible, its story, and significance for us as followers of Jesus. Here is our working definition of the Bible: “The Bible is a library of writings that are both divine and human, that together tell a unified story, which leads us to Jesus.”

This past Sunday we continued in our latest, and much anticipated, mini-series with the ‘Year of Biblical Literacy’ called ‘The God I Don’t Understand.’ We dove into the topic of ‘Understanding Judgement’ and tackled a topic that usually leads to a lot of dissonance amongst Christians and non-Christians alike. One key take away we’ve been discussing over the last few weeks, however, that is helpful for this conversation as well is the idea that we are committed to both radical embrace and radical obedience as Christ-followers. This posture must frame our conversation around such personal and hard topics as judgement and justice. Take a listen.

Here are some of the resources that Daniel mentioned:

• ‘Erasing Hell’ by Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle

• ‘The Skeletons in God’s Closet’ by Joshua Ryan Butler

Like thousands of churches worldwide, this global pandemic has forced us to be creative in our response — both in terms of how we gather and how we serve our community. Though we believe the normative pattern established in Scripture for community anticipates embodied presence of the Gathered Church, there are certain times where that’s not as safe. We find ourselves in such a time and are thankful to be able to leverage the digital landscape to remain faithful to plugging into community. This week’s Gathering came by way of smaller House Gatherings (following local, state, and federal guidelines) via YouTube Live. We’d love for you to join us next week!