This weekend, throughout the Diocese of Richmond, we celebrate 200 years of so many countless hearts being moved like the heart of Jesus. That’s why this diocese exists at all — to allow everyone to encounter Christ and be moved by His grace to love and serve Him.

The only reason we have the courage at all to enter into this third century as a Diocese is because we are absolutely convinced: Jesus Christ is still on the move. 

Sometimes that’s hard to see, isn’t it? 

In today’s secular culture, it’s much easier just to stop moving. It’s more convenient to lay down and let our desires grow cold, to put the Lord’s will on the backburner. To try very hard not to draw any attention to our beliefs. To become passive, private Christians.

But Christ is still on the move! We do not serve a stagnant, archaic, old-fashioned, dead God. We love and worship a Savior who is alive and active and really present today!