Salt and light has an unmistakable influence in life, and so they serve as a divinely inspired, and relatively easy-to-understand metaphor about the importance the role that believers play in the world.

The Sermon on the Mount is the quintessential summary of Jesus’ teaching.  The beatitudes serve as the introduction to the sermon.  They also describe the counter-culture values of the Kingdom of God.  Pastor Phil walks through Matthew 5:1-12 and explains that those who trust in the King must learn to live as citizens of his kingdom.

To join Jesus in his Kingdom and on his mission into the darkness will mean that his people will have had to undergo significant 
transformation and the loss of everything the world considers essential

Every sinner is unable and unprepared to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is reserved for those 
who run from sin, and rest in Jesus. Matthew 3 is a reminder that God must change a person from what they are by 
nature if they are ever to meet God.

We can glorify God and be his obedient people in the strength that God provides. We can be a church that glorifies God, because before anything else, we know that God is able. Only he can provide the strength that we need. The question is, how does he do it?

We need direction. What we find is that God has provided us with a strategy that will equip us to be everything God has saved us to be as a church.

Pastor Phil continues the series about our church’s renewed vision and explains that all Christians are called to be witnesses for Jesus.

We want to continue to be a gospel-centered church striving for the Glory of God. What could possibly support the weight of our ambition. Where do we start? We start at the center where God started with us and finishes with us. It’s at the center – at the power plant of God – the gospel.