Aletheia Church Boston

Dreams for the Future: A Church of Grace

// September 6th, 2009 // Boston, Vision

Last time we looked at the first of Aletheia’s values: TRUTH.  Today, we’re going to mingle that value with GRACE.

GRACE is the context for truth.  Its been said that people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.  It’s my dream that “aletheia is a place where it is okay to not be okay.”  Because God is so patient, so kind, so forbearing with us, we seek to be a community that is this way with everyone else.

There’s a balance here, and I love the GOSPEL TENSION this creates.  Church can’t only exist to deliver truth.  If this were the case we’d be mere clanging gongs, pronouncing true statements to a hurting people, beating them down with our propositions.  On the other hand, if a church is only there to show grace to people, then we show HATEFUL KINDNESS.  Hateful, because we deny them the one thing that will do them eternal good, which is the truth of the gospel.

So this is my dream, our dream, to be a church full of grace AND truth, just as Jesus was.