Oh God, I don’t love you, I don’t even want to love you, but I want to want to love you!
                                                                                Teresa of Avila

God Who?

God has many names. The name we use for God says a lot about our perception of God. No one religion has an exclusive claim to the whole truth about God. We might say we have the clearest revelation of God, but that does not mean we fully understand the truth we have received. Grace is the interface between our humanity and God’s divinity. We receive grace when God or others do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. We extend grace to those who have other beliefs about God or no belief at all. At some level, we can all benefit from an exchange of beliefs we hold to be true. We are all fellow strugglers in this journey of faith. As our paths cross, there is opportunity to strengthen our own convictions as well as encounter new insights about God. We find common ground in the fact that God is love in any language.

What’s God Up To?

God’s vision for our world is the re-creation of a new humanity, a new race of people in which there is unity within our national, ethnic and religious diversity. This is God’s vision, not ours. God calls us to live the challenge of such a vision for our world. Living that vision gradually transforms us over time to the point that we give highest priority to this vision as our true calling in life.

What If God Were One Of Us?

 Tori Amos hit a home run with her song by that title. We at GBC are Christians. For us, Jesus is the name of God. His life is the pattern for the way we choose to live. Seeking God is a universal quest. We welcome dialogue with people of other faiths, or no faith at all. We do not condemn those who are not professing Christians. We prefer to share in the exchange of our differing religious beliefs that we might learn from one another, complement one another, toward the end of becoming truly human together.

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