This morning, I was reworking a promotional card that Grace Hill Church will be sending out in 2011 to new residents of Springfield. As I thought about what I might write that would describe the heart of Grace Hill Church, I came up with the following:

“At Grace Hill, we believe that it’s not enough for us to be a church with a mission. We must be a church that is on mission. The gospel doesn’t just save us from our sin but it saves us to love God, our neighbor and our city. The gospel reorients our life and our loves so that we become more and more like Christ, which is to become more human, not less.”

As I reflect on these four sentences, my prayer is that these words would not only resonate with the readers, but more importantly, that they would resonate with us as a church, so that these don’t remain just principles but practices. If there were ever proof that we need the gospel daily, these four sentences prove it.