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.

Could God Really Be This Good?

For centuries, a specific narrative has dominated the spiritual imagination of the West. It is epitomized by Jonathan Edwards's famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." 


This view paints humanity as dangling over a pit, held only by the fragile mercy of a Deity whose wrath is poised to consume. 


But what if this picture is a reversal of the truth? What if the story of the Beautiful Gospel is not about God’s anger toward us, but about God’s relentless love finding us and rescuing us in our blindness, our darkness, our delusion? 


We are committed to being a safe place for wounded people (which is all of us). That’s what happens when the Beautiful Gospel opens hearts and eyes to a beautiful God who really is that good. 


When those whom Jesus misses most come in, they’ll come in because of the attractive beauty and goodness of God’s life in God’s people, for Wonderful Mercy will be a place where Jesus’ vision of his Father has taken hold.