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: What is your favorite subject on which to preach? Pastor Emmanuel Moon: Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. This is most central to the good news of Jesus Christ. When it comes to why I belong where I belong, it’s because of who Jesus claims to be. He claims to be the truth, and there are no other truths over this truth. He’s basically saying, I’m not lying. I am the way to the Father, and I am the life, the one who can give us not just life here on earth but also eternal life in heaven.
: What is the mission of your church? Father John Kent Reimann: To glorify God first and foremost, and to be sanctified and saved, and in that process, hopefully to help save those around us. Whoever wants to can join us on this pilgrimage and journey. The goal of this church is to take in sick people — those afflicted with the sickness, brokenness and woundedness of sin — and bring them healing. It is also a part of our mission to reach out to the world around us. As we are healed, we bring that healing to others; as we take the Eucharist in the church, we become the Eucharist to the wor...
: What’s your favorite subject on which to preach? Pastor Jason Coker: The Lord’s Prayer. In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus gives us an unusual way of thinking about spirituality. When the prayer talks about how the rule, the power or the love of God comes on earth as it is in heaven, that message of love and goodness is translated as food for those who are hungry and forgiveness for those who have made mistakes. The ability to avoid making those mistakes in the future – deliverance from sin – all of that opens up the reality that what we do, in terms of people who follow Christ, is pract...
Pastor Karla Shaw: Our vision is to love everyone to life with everything we have. That idea comes from the Book of Deuteronomy, when Moses was expounding to the Israelites to choose life and you will live. There’s a difference between living and intentionally choosing life in order to have abundant living. We as a church believe loving everyone to life with everything we have involves not just the spiritual nature of a person, but also the physical, mental, emotional and communal parts of a person. SDR : Where is the strangest place you found God? PS: I went through a period of about six ...