Belong Church

A famous story found in the book of Luke is the parable of Jesus describing the "Good Samaritan" in which we see many qualtities to ascribe to. Mercy is evident and we see kindness, in the book of Romans, we see that it is God's kindness and love that leads us to a change.

As we read through the gospel of Luke, we find Jesus paints a picture and describes "WHAT" the Kingdom of God is all about. Reading through context, we find continuity in His description of "HOW" we are to not merely "hearing" but becoming "Christ Followers!"

Jesus was sent by our loving Father in Heaven with purpose even beyond the ultimate gift of paying for our sins. In Luke 4, we see that Jesus had a mission statement, a mandate directing Him and validating Him!

The word "faith" is often seen in the Bible... have faith... seeing their faith... now faith... We look at examples and the root meaning on the word and applying to our life.

We look at the evangelism heart and the journey that has been our experience to date, and the experience of 2 women in the Bible. As we celebrate 4 years as a church, we celebrate every life that has experienced change from God and "look what THE LORD has done!"

We all face schemes from the enemy, but we need to be wise in dealing with them. We all have days and situations where we seem to be at a "low point" described by the psalmist as the "valley" and even death seems to overshadow everything around us.

But with a relationship with God, He is right there with us!

Jesus said of the parable in Mark 4, if you don't understand this, how can you understand any of the others or the Kingdom of God?

The parable of the sower, seed and soil reveals even more of the progression of change that we experience.

All of life surrounds seed, time and harvest. Jesus said that if we don't understand this parable, how can you understand all of the others and how the Kingdom of Heaven works.

There are many words associated with religion, and one of the most skewed connotation is the word, sin. Literally means, "to miss the mark" and encompasses all our failures as humans, sums up lack of discipline, and so much more.

The Bible says that we all, everyone, SIN and fall short of the Glory of God. In fact, we first see it in Gen 4:7, and the instruction to subdue it and be its master.

Top questions that are most asked are: how to hear from God, direction for my life, or how to know what to do... Our default is to "go it" alone, or by what "I THINK" and we end up missing it.

The Bible says, God has all the chapters of our life written… The plans that HE HAS for us, LIFE TO THE FULL! But it REQUIRES US… to HEAR… to LISTEN…