Our purpose: “To be a community of believers where, no matter who you are, you can experience life change through Jesus Christ.”
30 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.” —Luke 1:30-33 (ESV)
The Divine Dilemma: God’s Justice or God’s Mercy?
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he. —Deuteronomy 32:4 (ESV)
But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. —Romans 2:5 (NIV)
They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might. —2 Thessalonians 1:9 (ESV)
The Lord is compassionate and merciful. —James 5:11 (ESV)
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. —2 Corinthians 1:3 (NLT)
The Divine Solution?
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. —Isaiah 53:6 (ESV)
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities …
—Isaiah 53:5 (ESV)