What should a church be? There are differing opinions regarding an answer to the question. What if I asked you what kind of church do you not want to be? Sometimes looking at the same thing from a different perspective can help bring clarity to the issue. GracePointe doesn’t want to be certain things. What are a few of those things? I am glad you asked.

We don’t want to be an institution. Institutions are stationary. They are concerned with the status quo. They create burdens and end up serving self.

We don’t want to be boring. The gospel is the most exciting news in the history of mankind. Our God is the most interesting person in all of existence. Enough said.

We don’t want to be fake. Deceptive, manipulative, superficial and hypocritical is fake. We want to be REAL.

There are a few more things that we don’t want to be, but I will leave those for another time. These are the ones that presently come to mind.

Grace,
Chris