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Belonging is one of the three core values of Crosswalk Church. Our three core values are experience, momentum, and belonging, but "belonging", always comes first. We believe that Crosswalk must always be a community of belonging. What does that mean? It means no matter where you're from, what you've done, no matter what you look like, you belong here. Period.
We all have different ideas about life and how it works. We have different political ideas about how things should be in our nation or other nations that you might be listening to this from. And probably most of us are right and wrong, but we come together in our communities of belonging in a way that should transcend these ideas that we have.
We become the people of God more profoundly when we're together. And yes, when we're together with people we don't always agree with, which I understand is hard. But we have the opportunity to create a different kind of world when we're in the presence of God. And so belonging is really important.
One of the things that belonging does is it creates a commonality. It creates an us and them kind of understanding. It is actually quite easy to build communities when you're against something because everybody who's against that thing comes together, and we all sit around and be against that thing. To build a community of diverse people -- different ethnicities and cultures, different age ranges, different socioeconomic classes -- is to put all that aside and come before the risen King and worship and praise and pray together, to find ways to play together and live together and move and even have our being together.
This is what a community of belonging really is. It doesn't have to be beautiful. In fact, it probably won't be. In fact, it might be kind of ugly. We'll make mistakes along the way. People will get hurt. We'll apologize. And most importantly, we'll heal together. If we don't do those things, are we really fulfilling the call that God has given us to love our brothers and sisters, to love others as you would have them love you? Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind and to love your neighbor as yourself. If we're not willing to do these things, then we're not willing to be in a community of belonging.
So if you come to Crosswalk, chances are you may see somebody you don't like. You may see somebody who doesn't like you. You may see somebody who disagrees with your ideologies or your politics. You may see somebody who doesn't look like you, doesn't eat the same food as you, and sometimes doesn't even speak the same language that you do. But we are all the same. We are sinners. We stand before a loving and forgiving God. We worship Him for what it is that He has done for us. And we continue the hard work of belonging.
In this series, we're going to talk about stories of healing that Jesus has for us throughout Scripture. And as we do that, we are going to learn what it means to be healed, forgiven, restored, and brought back into a community of belonging. So if you're listening to this, I want you to go and find a crosswalk church close to you and know that when you get there, you belong.
We all have different ideas about life and how it works. We have different political ideas about how things should be in our nation or other nations that you might be listening to this from. And probably most of us are right and wrong, but we come together in our communities of belonging in a way that should transcend these ideas that we have.
We become the people of God more profoundly when we're together. And yes, when we're together with people we don't always agree with, which I understand is hard. But we have the opportunity to create a different kind of world when we're in the presence of God. And so belonging is really important.
One of the things that belonging does is it creates a commonality. It creates an us and them kind of understanding. It is actually quite easy to build communities when you're against something because everybody who's against that thing comes together, and we all sit around and be against that thing. To build a community of diverse people -- different ethnicities and cultures, different age ranges, different socioeconomic classes -- is to put all that aside and come before the risen King and worship and praise and pray together, to find ways to play together and live together and move and even have our being together.
This is what a community of belonging really is. It doesn't have to be beautiful. In fact, it probably won't be. In fact, it might be kind of ugly. We'll make mistakes along the way. People will get hurt. We'll apologize. And most importantly, we'll heal together. If we don't do those things, are we really fulfilling the call that God has given us to love our brothers and sisters, to love others as you would have them love you? Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind and to love your neighbor as yourself. If we're not willing to do these things, then we're not willing to be in a community of belonging.
So if you come to Crosswalk, chances are you may see somebody you don't like. You may see somebody who doesn't like you. You may see somebody who disagrees with your ideologies or your politics. You may see somebody who doesn't look like you, doesn't eat the same food as you, and sometimes doesn't even speak the same language that you do. But we are all the same. We are sinners. We stand before a loving and forgiving God. We worship Him for what it is that He has done for us. And we continue the hard work of belonging.
In this series, we're going to talk about stories of healing that Jesus has for us throughout Scripture. And as we do that, we are going to learn what it means to be healed, forgiven, restored, and brought back into a community of belonging. So if you're listening to this, I want you to go and find a crosswalk church close to you and know that when you get there, you belong.