Most groups, clubs, and organizations have a written or unwritten standard for belonging – but if you pay attention to Jesus you’ll notice that he didn’t. Jesus’ only criteria for being in his group was a desire to be in his group – a willingness to follow him.

Jesus’ group was full of all kinds of people: rich and poor, people from the far political right and the far political left, people who had committed every kind of sin, people who had ‘wrong’ ideas about God, Jesus and the Dream of God, and people from a variety of ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds.

Jesus’ way of forming a group of followers made a lot of people uncomfortable (and still does), but it is how we strive to live out the Dream of God.

God is at work in our neighborhood. We look for where God is working and join in that work! We partner with many local organizations to help meets the needs and strengthen the bonds of community in our neighborhood. Secondly, we don’t all look alike, act alike or think alike but we love each other. This community is only possible by allowing God to guide us as individuals and approaching each other with humility.

As we go, God’s love go with us. Whenever we step outside our neighborhood it is a chance to carry the love of Jesus. Some people find this is their calling. Whether that be Tucker, Blairsville, Alabama, Oklahoma or Ecuador…we love God’s church and want to support the spread God’s love wherever we have the opportunity.

We give the highest interpretive priority to the approach that Jesus taught his followers to take toward scripture, to focus on his teaching about loving God and loving your neighbor found in Matthew 22:36-40 .

This interpretive lens leads us to make our primary questions: “What would Jesus do?” “What best expresses my love for God in this situation?” “What would best express God’s love to my neighbor?” “How would I want someone to treat me or speak to me in this situation?”