Let me be the first to welcome you to Community Alliance Church–or at least our website. Since you’ve chosen to look us up on the web and browse our site, you’re probably interested in who we are as a church and whether we might be worth checking out in person. There’s lot of information available on this site about our service times and style, our programs, our doctrine, and more.
What I’d like to tell you here is that Community Alliance Church is an ‘ordinary’ church serving an extraordinary Savior. We are a normal people that have been rescued and transformed by God’s grace in Jesus Christ. Each of us came to a point in life where we realized that we weren’t good enough and didn’t have within us what life–and ultimately God–required of us. And we turned to Jesus Christ for forgiveness, mercy, and sustaining strength day by day.
As a pastor, one of the biggest criticisms I hear about churches from folks who don’t attend a church is that the church is full of hypocrites. Let me be straight with you–we are full of hypocrites. We are people, just like you, who don’t always live up to the ideals we value. All churches are full of hypocrites because churches are full of imperfect people. And that’s as it should be; Jesus said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mark 2:17, ESV).
The church is a hospital of sorts, where imperfect people can come, warts and all, and receive grace and begin to be transformed by God into someone who much more closely resembles the perfect Son of God: Jesus Christ.
So again, I say welcome. We’re not perfect and we make no pretenses about that. But we love God and love people and God is at work in us and through us. Come out and meet us–and more importantly, come out and encounter the great God we know, love, and serve.
Thanks for spending a few minutes here. I hope I’ll have the chance to greet you in person someday soon.
Pastor Dylan