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Our vision is to love God, love people, and turn the world upside down.
Those of us who are starting this church hope to continually grow in loving God, loving people, and turning the world upside down. We believe that as we move to Las Vegas and build relationships and serve the community, people will notice these individuals and this community that loves God and loves people. In fact, we believe that there are few places in the world where such a lifestyle would be more counter-cultural and more magnetic.
Our prayer is that as people are drawn in by our lifestyles and how we share life, they will begin a journey toward loving God and loving people. And, thus, we’ll turn the world upside down one life at a time.
Of all the possible options, why did we choose “love God, love people”? Because when asked what was most important in life, Jesus answered in Luke 10:27, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself.” He added in Luke 10:28, “Do this and you will live.”
By that last comment, Jesus seems to indicate that it’s possible to live without really living. So many people are alive but are not really living. What will give them true and eternal life is loving God and loving people. It’s what they were made for.
And, on a larger scale, so many churches are alive but not really living. It’s only when a church focuses on loving God and loving people that it starts experiencing real, full, abundant life.
And a church where real, full, abundant life is being experienced is a church that will turn the world upside down. That phrase comes from the Bible as well. In the book of Acts we see Christianity starting and then spreading across the globe. Finally, for the first time, some Christians come into the town of Thessalonica. When they do, the people of that town say, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too…” (Acts 17:6; Holman Christian Standard Translation). Christianity had only been around for a short time, but already Christians had such an impact that they’re called “the people who have turned the world upside down.” Our hope is that as we live lives of love for God and for people, we might have such an impact on individuals, on the Las Vegas Strip and around the globe that we could be called people who turned the world upside down.
