Christianity is strange. That’s not an accident; it was designed that way. God established a people to represent Him to the rest of the world. And he calls them holy. The word holy means ‘distinct,’ set apart,’ or ‘different.’ In other words, strange.

If Christianity doesn’t strike you as strange from time to time, it may mean you haven’t stopped and seriously considered it in a while. The church is unlike any other institution in the world. Think about it from an outsider’s perspective.

Once a week, people from all sorts of backgrounds gather together and happily greet one another. We sing and pray to someone we cannot see. We read from a two-thousand-year-old book and then someone gets up to explain it. Every now and then someone gets wet and once a month we eat bread and drink grape juice. Like I said, strange.

Why do Christians do these things? These aren’t simply customs that have developed by accident, nor are they based on our personal preferences. We gather to worship this way because this is the way God has commanded us to worship in His word. And how we worship is meant to reveal something about who we worship.

Whether you have been a Christian for five years or five days, I want to invite you to join us for our new sermon series, “Why we do what we do.” We will examine what the Bible says Christians should do when we gather together.

This series will run from September 13th - November 22nd, 202