Coming Home

I was just talking to someone today about how I view Christianity. It turned out to be a loaded question that started a huge debate, but I'd like to start where we ended our conversation. To me, being a Christian is having a relationship with God. Just like with other humans, we do things with and for them to show that we love them. I verbally affirm my wife that I love her. I encourage people I work with. I converse with anyone and try to be pleasant and open to listen. And I think that's where relationship with God starts: trying. We try, as idiotic as it may sound, to talk with God. We try to do things for him. And when we try, the attitude we should have is one of humility. Love is the verb that says, "I choose you over me." If we are loving God and humbling ourselves enough to allow God to be in charge of life, we are practicing relationship, which is the basis of Christianity.

As a church body, we are not looking to condemn. I know it may seem like that sometimes, and I know that people get hurt by people in the church who claim to have a relationship with God. We are in no way perfect. We struggle with the same issues you do. As a community of believers, we want to explore the idea of God. We want to seek new avenues of worship and adoration of our creator and Lord. As a staff of Fusion at Beymer, we want to say a huge welcome to anyone who may be seeking God, or even a real relationship with another human. Let's discover the potential for "iron sharpening iron," for holistic worship, for brotherly love. We're excited to begin on this path and hope you join in and enrich our lives as much as we hope to enrich yours.

Peace.