Golden Ticket

We ask for your forgiveness for having a ‘Golden Ticket’ mentality in which we wrongly assume that if we just say certain magical words or perform unique rituals, God is required to accept us into Heaven. We then can go and continue living our lives filled with...

is church a risky place to be vulnerable?

So many times in modern culture we lack the skill to be vulnerable. Society makes it very easy for us to hide: we can photoshop our physical imperfections on social media and we post the edited version of our life on Facebook and Twitter. This same scenario is played...

Meaningful Relationships

We ask for your forgiveness for making the church into an expensive ad for something cheap. We have focused so much on buildings, land, and wealth, that we have forgotten the simplicity of meaningful relationships with each other and with God. During the summer of...

is following Jesus a self-enrichment hobby?

If you’ve attended a church for a long time, then you know the drill: Bible studies written by a famous Christian author, Vacation Bible School, accountability groups, choir practice, praise band practice, tech rehearsals, the multifold of committee meetings about...