Welcome to Elmvale Community Church. We are a community of believers in Jesus Christ committed to Loving God and Loving Others. We follow in the Way of Jesus and dedicate ourselves to: Being with Jesus. Becoming like Jesus. Doing what Jesus did.
- We are finding wholeness in sharing community with neighbours marked by generosity and self-sacrifice.
- We are finding freedom submitting our lives to the leading of the Spirit to do bold and audacious things for God.
- We are finding peace in doing the right things, not the popular things.
- We are finding significance and joy in living love and restoring people, marriages, families, our community, and the world around us back to God.
Checkout our latest teaching below:
If being lost means the world has grown larger than your knowledge of it, then getting lost is a spiritual necessity. We will never experience growth in our personal life or experience true faith without stepping into unfamiliar territory.
The Bible is full of stories where God does His best work with people who are lost. In fact, God often calls people out of the status quo into the
wilderness both figuratively and literally…
Saint Augustine wrote, “The essence of sin is disordered love.”
Disordered loves means that we often love less-important things more, and more-important things less than we ought to, and this wrong prioritization leads to unhappiness and disorder in our lives. Here’s the question that bears repeating this morning: What do I possess that actually possesses me?
I want to challenge you to do something specific: Ask Jesus the question, “What thing in my life, aside from you, do I look to for comfort, identity, and protection?”
And when He brings something to mind, I challenge you to symbolically lay something down until Easter, as a desire to reorder your life’s loves…