Emmaus Church SC

Forgiveness is one of those things that sounds like a great ideal until you're the one who has to do it.This Sunday at Emmaus, we're talking about forgiveness. What Jesus teaches about it, what it does and doesn't require of us, and how we begin to find our way toward it when we're not even sure we want to.Whether you're holding onto hurt, trying to make things right, or somewhere in between, there's room for you in this conversation.

This Sunday at Emmaus, we're observing All Saints Sunday—a time to remember the people we love who are no longer with us and to explore one of the most beautiful promises of our faith: the hope of resurrection.We'll talk about what Jesus' resurrection means for our own lives, what we can believe about those who have died, and why Christians have insisted for centuries that death is not the end of the story.We'll also make space to grieve, to give thanks, to light candles, and to remember our loved ones by name. Whether you're carrying fresh grief or remembering someone you've missed for years, we hope you'll join us.

Who gets into heaven? What about people who have never heard of Jesus? Will only a few people be saved?These are some of the questions we're exploring this Sunday as we continue our Let's Talk About It series.And as it turns out, when someone asked Jesus a question about how many people would be saved, he didn't exactly give them the answer they were looking for. (Which seems to be a recurring theme with Jesus.)

“Everything happens for a reason.”We've probably all heard it. Maybe we've even said it. But is it true?What do we do when life falls apart? When we pray and things don't get better? When we believe God is good, but what we're experiencing is anything but?This Sunday at Emmaus, we're continuing our Let's Talk About It series with a conversation about suffering, prayer, and where God is when it all goes wrong.We won't pretend there are easy answers, but we do believe there's hope, even when life doesn't turn out the way we hoped.We'll also make some space to pray together for those who could use a little extra grace right now.Whether life is good or you're barely holding it together, there's a place for you here.

This Sunday at Emmaus, we’re continuing our Let’s Talk About It series with a conversation about the Bible and same-sex relationships.For many of us, this is a subject that comes with questions, convictions, experiences, and deeply personal stories. So we want to approach it the way we’ve tried to approach this entire series: with open Bibles, open hearts, and room for honest conversation.How can we take Scripture seriously while wrestling faithfully with what it says—and what it doesn’t say? And what might the life of Jesus and the story of the early church teach us about making room for one another?

Dragons. Beasts. Horsemen. Bowls of wrath. 666. Armageddon.There’s a reason Revelation has fascinated—and confused—people for centuries.For some of us, it was taught as a kind of roadmap to the end of the world: a book filled with secret codes that could be matched to headlines, wars, world leaders, and whatever was happening in the Middle East.But what if that’s not what Revelation was written to be?This Sunday, we’re continuing Let’s Talk About It by taking on one of the strangest and most misunderstood books in the Bible: Revelation.We’ll talk about what kind of book Revelation actually is, what all that wild imagery meant to its first readers, and why its message might be far more relevant to our lives than trying to figure out when the world will end.

“In the beginning…”We know the stories: creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, the Tower of Babel.But what if some of the oldest and most familiar stories in the Bible have been trying to tell us something deeper than how everything happened?This Sunday, we’re continuing LET’S TALK ABOUT IT by going all the way back to the beginning—Genesis 1–11.We’ll talk about creation and science, ancient stories and modern questions, what we do with the difficult parts of these texts, and what these stories reveal about God, humanity, and the world we were made to inhabit.

What do you do with the parts of the Bible that trouble you?The contradictions. The violence. The passages that don’t seem to look much like Jesus.This Sunday we’re kicking off our new series, Let’s Talk About It, and we’re starting with the Bible.We believe you don’t have to ignore your questions to keep your faith. In fact, sometimes asking better questions is how our faith grows deeper.

There are some things that are better when you don’t just watch. You jump in.This Sunday we’re wrapping up our Finding Our Way Together series with a message called Jump On In. Church isn’t something a few people do while everybody else watches. This is ours. We serve one another. We make room for people. We love our neighbors. We carry this thing together.

What if finding your way isn’t just about figuring out where you’re going—but discovering where you fit in what God is already doing?This Sunday, we’re continuing Finding Our Way Together by talking about what it means to move OUT—to look around, notice where God is at work, and find our place in it.And we’re not just going to talk about it.