Element Christian Church of Santa Maria

The Gospel: We were all separated from relationship with God because of our own actions, but by the grace of Jesus, He has found us, cleaned us up, and adopted us into His family. We now live our lives for the Glory of Christ, boldly sharing this Good News: that Jesus Has Saved and Redeemed us.

Why did God love His people? Deuteronomy 7:7-8 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you...

We serve and love a God who has a great sense of humor. Through-out scripture we see God joking around, having fun, and drawing people into repentance through humor. In the history of men no one was as funny as Jesus. Jesus used humor at parties, with His disciples, but His best humor was used in His teaching. He would use humor and sarcasm to call people into repentance. He would joke around with the way religious people lived out the law while teaching how the law should be lived. Through this kind of teaching we laugh and cry realizing that our attempts at gaining heaven on our own power are truly laughable. Through laughing we are drawn to our Father who loves us and brings us hope and joy in spite of our stupidity. Through His joy we learn to take ourselves lightly and God seriously knowing that He is trustworthy and true, and that our salvation is secure in Him, not in our own works. With hearts of worship we praise Him for the joy and humor He brings into our lives.

Jesus did not say, “I have come that you may have safety and have it abundantly.” He came to give us a big, bold, messy life where we see God’s power unleashed and walk in His authority and live in His victory and shine with His joy.

World history is speckled with the lives of leaders, kings, conquerors and iconoclasts who shaped their culture, region and even generations. There has been no leader in history who has made such a lasting and far-reaching impact on humanity as our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ served first, obeyed God, sacrificed for his followers, developed leadership in others, and led with unquestionable divine authority. The impact that Christ made as a servant is just a glimpse of the impact He will make when He returns as King!

What is the chief end of man? Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever. -Westminster Shorter Catechism

We need to be always preaching the gospel to ourselves.  We should spend our entire lives learning the gospel.

Jerislav Pelikan wrote “Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about Him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture for almost 20 centuries. If it were possible, with some sort of super-magnet, to pull up out of that history every scrap of metal bearing at least a trace of His name, how much would be left?”

Evangelicalism is trying to fight a war on many fronts about pluralism, sexuality, error and compromise. We want you to have a coherence to be able to filter everything, so you can understand our culture better.

Christendom is less about being saved for eternal life and the kingdom of God, and more about living a moral life to build a good society and a great nation. Matthew 7:22-23 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you...

What does the Bible mean when it speaks of God remembering our sins no more?

It simply means that He no longer responds to us in light of those sins. They no longer derail our relationship with him. They no longer garner his wrath. They are

gone—completely—-from our account.

A look at Pre-Modern, Modern & Post-Modern Eras.