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Series · What About?

What About CHURCH?

Ephesians 2–4 gives us a fresh vision: church as God’s family in a house built on the apostles and prophets, with Christ as the cornerstone—and a holy temple where God lives when we’re carefully joined together.
3 John 1:4

When you hear the word church, what memories or feelings surface for you—and why?

Dr. Nate Ruch·Lead Pastor
What About CHURCH?
This Sunday
What About CHURCH?
What About?

When you hear the word church, what memories or feelings surface for you—and why?

After Sunday

The message keeps
working on you.

A glimpse of how this one moved through our week — the things that stayed with us, the prayers we prayed, the conversations we found ourselves having.

Day 1
From Stranger to Family
Paul says you are no longer a stranger or foreigner, but a citizen with God’s holy people—members of His family.
Day 2
House. Foundation. Cornerstone.
Church is a family that lives in a house built on the apostles and prophets, with Christ Himself as the cornerstone.
Day 3
Equipped to Build
Jesus gives apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers so the church is equipped and built up.
Day 4
Growing Up in Love
God’s dream is a church that is unified, mature, and steady—speaking the truth in love.
Day 5
Return and Re‑gather
Jesus told Ephesus to return to first love and first works. Hebrews urges us not to neglect meeting together but to encourage one another.
Day 6
More Than We Ask
God can do infinitely more than we ask or imagine—‘in the church and in Christ Jesus.’ Dare to ask not just for personal breakthroughs but for a...
Lines that stayed with us

Some moments
you can't shake.

Songs we're still singing

The room kept singing
all week long.

Whisper this: In Christ I’m no longer a stranger. I belong in God’s family.

· Songs from this Sunday· Prayers in the same key· The atmosphere we keep returning to
Around our tables

You were never meant
to walk alone.

In one sentence, describe your earliest memory of ‘church.’ What impression did it leave on you?

  • Talk it through together
    What part of the Ephesians 2 picture (family, house, cornerstone, temple) do you most need right...
  • Pray these with us
    Pray for one another by name: for healing from hurt, courage to forgive, and fresh grace to be...
  • Questions worth sitting with
    When you hear the word church, what memories or feelings surface for you—and why?
What we've been talking about lately

Messages
shaping our house.

AllReaching Into Their FutureHouse on the RockPresence
The Long Obedience
Reaching Into Their Future
The Long Obedience
Dr. Nate Ruch
Sent From the Table
Reaching Into Their Future
Sent From the Table
Pastor Team
Built to Last
House on the Rock
Built to Last
Dr. Nate Ruch
Storm-Tested Faith
House on the Rock
Storm-Tested Faith
Pastor Team
When God Draws Near
Presence
When God Draws Near
Dr. Nate Ruch

Some truths
stay with you.

And God is still speaking.