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:
In Genesis, we see a God who blesses, provides for and protects humans – and He reveals to them what He is like so that they can bear His priorities into the world on His behalf. God blesses humans so that humans will bring His blessing and bear His character into the world.
In this story – God wants to remove from Abraham any preconceived ideas of how a god is supposed to operate. He reveals a new part of His character to Abraham so that Abraham knows how to properly represent God in the world.
Some of us have spent years believing faith means having certainty or a perfect theology. We think if we still have questions, if we still wrestle, if we still feel fear, then we're failing at being a Christian.
But Abraham and Sarah's story say otherwise. They laughed. They doubted. They tried to take matters into their own hands. They
struggled to believe. And through all of it, God stayed faithful.
• Because faith was never about Abraham's perfect confidence.
• Faith was about God's perfect character - and it remains the same today.
The good news this morning is that God is not asking you to manufacture certainty – to just believe hard enough. He is inviting you to trust Him. To relax into Him. To place the weight of your life into hands more capable than your own.