Welcome to the Church of the Cross website and we encourage you to go from web to worshiping with us in person on Sunday Mornings at 9:30 am for the Traditional Service or The Encounter Worship Service at 12:00 pm.
We have a favorite saying here, “Welcome to Church of the Cross: it’s not our church its GOD’S church.” We are a group of believers who wish to follow God’s mission for us individually and as a Christian community. We do this through our relationship with Jesus Christ our Lord, that relationship being nurtured through prayer, word, worship and service together.
All are welcome to seek God’s grace, mercy, forgiveness and living presence at Church of the Cross. Come and see how the one true living Christ can renew your life, the life of your family, and heal the wounds we all get from life’s struggles.
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Revelation 3:14-22
“It’s time to have a hot meal with Jesus.”
Lent is a time of spiritual introspection in which all Christians should re-evaluate their individual journey through this earthly life and asses whether they are living a Spirit led life or allowing the self to rule over the Savior. Jesus, the Emmanuel, loves us passionately. He demonstrated that love by giving us a new set of commands which showed how to live in obedience to God from the heart outward. More pointedly, Christ witnessed to the power of His love for all humanity past, present and future by dying on the cross of ignominy as the price for our redemption.
All who have received the gift of salvation through His Gospel are to have a like passion for living out their faith. In the admonition to the Church in Laodicea, the ascended Christ chastises the members of that congregation for their half-heartedness. He berates them for thinking that they are rich when in fact they are spiritually destitute. This is an expression of the Lord’s love for them.
He realizes that they are in spiritual dissipation and that they have lost contact with Him. Jesus opens his arms to all to come back to the passionate Christian life where a spiritual meal of Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Gentleness, Faithfulness, Goodness and Self-control is available through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit.
I believe God has placed wondrous opportunities before the Global Methodist Church of the Cross. Our Church has a strong history of being passionately in service to our Lord Jesus. As each of us rekindles our spiritual fire this Lenten observance let us search for ways to reopen the doors of our hearts to our beloved Savior.
In His service: Pastor Tom