OUR NAME

The word Advent means “coming” or “arrival.”  It proclaims our faith that Jesus came to us as God in the flesh, as well as our hope in his return to restore the whole world.  It also speaks of our desire for people to encounter Him today through the power of the Holy Spirit and through his Church.   

our MISSION STATEMENT

We want to share in the life of God

by redefining and reorienting everything

 around the gospel of Jesus Christ.

We want…

We fully realize that we cannot achieve our mission in and of ourselves.  It is our desire and our prayer that God would do this work in and through our church.  We commit to doing our part to see this happen, and we trust that God will give us the desire, ability, and perseverance to carry it out.

To share in the life of God…

The purpose of human existence is to share in the life of God (John 17:3). This is what all people were created to experience, and this is what every person deeply yearns for, whether they realize it or not.  Because of our attempts to live apart from God’s life, physical death and separation from God have stained every corner of our world. However, through Jesus and the Holy Spirit, we are welcomed back into relationship with God, the source of life. In Him, we receive a life that is so deep, so wide, so vast, and so permanent that it can only be called “eternal life.” 

By redefining and reorienting everything…

Too often, we define ourselves and our world by what our eyes can see, or by what others say about us.  But as we begin to share in the life of God, we gain a new perspective – God’s perspective – that frees us to start fresh.

This new perspective then changes the way we live in the world, re-orienting our story in life-giving directions.  This re-orientation touches every part of us and every part of the world.  Nothing is left out of this transformation.

Around the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

We believe Christianity is not about good advice.  It’s about good news (gospel) that has come to us: Through Jesus Christ, the world has been set right and invited back into the life of God through the power of the Holy Spirit.  At Advent, we constantly come back to this refrain.  The gospel is not about how good we can be, how many spiritual things we can do, or how relevant we can be to our culture.  The gospel is about what God has done through Jesus, and we want to always be “making much” of what He has done.