Healing the broken is a key priority.
Before we build buildings, borrow money, add staff, start new initiatives and make major changes, we ask the question, how can we find and heal more broken people?
Healing is a journey.
None of us arrive at the destination overnight. We’re all works in progress. Our role is to initiate change, create a clear pathway for growth, and help people find their next redemptive step toward maturity.
For us, this means …
Worship services where people are warmly welcomed no matter how they appear, free to praise Jesus from postures of both joy and sorrow, and where God’s truth is passionately made plain.
Small groups where confidence is respected, transparency is allowed, authenticity is embraced, and encouragement and accountability are offered.
Classes and special opportunities for growth in various areas are made available.
Counseling and recovery ministries are an assumed future as we grow into them.
We never stop looking for the next broken person.
I’m convinced that Jesus was crazy about broken people.
He hung out with them, spent time with them, conversed about life with them, touched them and found His place among them as family even though they ultimately rejected Him. So I’m also convinced that Jesus is crazy about churches that do what He commissioned them to do—get crazy about the broken.
I don’t care if our church is “big” or “successful” in the secular sense of those words. But I’m absolutely determined we will be a healing place for the broken!
