missio

Our mission is to create followers of Jesus who love God and people, live intentionally within the Kingdom, and echo this Way to others. Here’s some expansion on that that has come as I’ve recently been thinking about direction for our church as we begin to feel out who we are becoming.

Love

Love is a vertical action, beginning first with God’s love coming to us, and us, having seen the wondrous glory of Christ, returning adoration towards Him. As this amorous exchange occurs within us, it overflows out of the vertical plane and begins to affect our horizontal relationships; namely, other people. This is what this looks like graphically:

Hopefully the cycle continues, as the love shown to others because of the overflow from our vertical relationships is originally from God. The love shown to others, having originated from Love Himself, is really and truly God showing His love to others [as it is outside our natural state to love others unconditionally]. Thus, the cycle, when allowed to continue unbroken, can be a fractal of the image above, with each numeral ‘3′ becoming a numeral ‘2′ for a new iteration of the display of the Divine love.

The cycle, when unbroken by sin, continues to eternity, with God-originating love affecting a finite amount of persons infinitely.