“Renaissance Road is called to bring people far from God back to God so that they can know life change!”

That’s who we are.  That’s what we do.  Every little thing we do is designed to reach them.  Growth groups, cool lighting, fog machines, super-excited greeters, music that thumps, messages that hit hard, a student ministry that kids actually look forward to coming to, college outreach, a food bank, out of this world graphics,  … all to reach people.

Unapologetically.  In your face.  We will reach them.  Screw what religion thinks of us.

And when we reach them, that stuff I just listed, the tools of our trade, we drop from our hands so that we can give them JESUS.  Jesus, our Savior, the man who exploded onto the scene of our lives and infected us with his grace.  Yeah that Jesus, he’s in us like a virus.  He’s in us like fire that won’t go out.  Like  the deep ocean without a bottom.  

That’s the Jesus we give them.

So tell us that we have an ulterior motive in doing what we do.  Guilty.

Tell us that we’re way too edgy.  Guilty.  Jesus was, too.

Tell us that we’re a one dimensional church.  Guilty again.  Jesus is life, and I guess that’s pretty myopic of us.

Guilty, guilty, guilty.  Because nothing, NO-THING, makes us happier than reaching them, your children, your family, your co-workers.  Guilty. 

Guilty of pursuing kingdom-greatness.