Healing & Hope - The Church’s Image Problem & Four Ways to Fix It

River City Church - Cambridge, ON

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Welcome to River City Church Online. Thank you for joining us today as we finish our series called Crafting a Culture of Healing & Hope in the Church.
Today's message has been presented by Pastor Darrell Bierman.

A healthy church is one where every person is seen, heard, and valued.

A healthy church has carefully crafted a culture of goodness, dignity, and respect.

However, both history and our current headlines reveal a church that can be a deeply flawed, sinful, and unhealthy institution, marred by acts of injustice, corruption, abuse, misogyny, and oppression. Indeed, far from having “goodness cultures” too many churches today have “toxic” cultures!

So, is this vision of a healthy church even possible or is this vision idealistic and unattainable this side of heaven?

Here at River City Church, we believe that a healthy church is possible, but creating one will takes all of us working together deliberately following a map.

This new series will give us the map and will both equip and challenge us to turn this this dream into a reality.

The essence of Christianity isn’t the same as the current angry, abusive, self-righteous expression of Christianity that’s causing so many to walk away.

The vast majority of church leaders and of everyday Christians are - by and large - being faithful to Christ’s call (they are endeavoring to be good-hearted, honest, and faithful).

This Sunday we will look at how to identify issues in the church and how to resolve them.

Café will be open right after the service.
We are located at 215 South Street, Cambridge, Ontario.

God bless you today and we hope to see you soon.
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