Everyone can experience the personal love, grace, beauty, and empowerment of Jesus without coming to church, our church, or anyone else’s church. It’s not about church.

I hope churches all over the world are packed on Easter, with faithful followers and curious seekers, with the confused and addicted and marginalized and proud. And when they come, I hope we who have already sought and been found can offer grace, lots of grace

Becoming a local church member is about commitment–to Christ, other Christians, and Christ’s cause. When a local church becomes what God dreamed it to be, life becomes outrageously deep and lives become extraordinarily changed.