You aren't meant to be good enough, you're meant to be loved.

The great problem in the New Testament is not a moral problem (it’s there), but that we don’t have the first idea about God. Or about ourselves.


Satan loves when we try to be good enough, when we knock ourselves out and tie ourselves up in knots trying to get someplace we already are.


Jesus does not invite us to follow a belief system of theology or loyalty to denominational brand names or faithfulness to a moral system of do’s and don’ts. The gospel is Good News: it’s not a prison yard that restricts your freedom and activity. It’s an invitation to discover who you are and what you’re meant for.


Following Jesus isn’t religious, it’s relational. It isn’t a philosophy or thought system. It’s a way of life—a way of life that shows us we were never meant to be good enough, we were meant to be loved.

A Wonderfully Beautiful Unity

The Prophetic Word for 2025 is to govern our hearts even as the Ministry Theme governs our actions. This is the word we believe God has given us: “How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters live together in unity” (Psalm 133:1).

 

What God is letting us in on is this: “As together you allow My love to open your hearts and flood your world, I’m going to establish and deepen a wonderful, beautiful unity that will make you truly safe and authentically attractive with My beauty."

 

Only love can save us, and it’s love that makes a home for unity. Perhaps that is why Blessed Trinity has given us the Ministry Theme of being loved as our highest good. Love will preserve and protect our spiritual community, creating an unassailable unity that will attract those who may have given up on church but not on God.

 

The Western church has spent too much time and energy arguing—and we wonder why people don’t want to come to church or be like us. It’s crazy. Why do we assume the culture has to not like Christianity? Typically, the beauty of God should win our city, not repulse it!

 

At WMC, we have resolved not to split, divide, or demonize—not over politics, issues of social justice or economics, style, or methodology. We will live generously, humbly, and graciously with each other and our neighbors, allowing the love that flows like a fountain from the heart of God to flood our world.