The Gathering Dayton - Where Grace and People Meet

OUR CURRENT SERIES: It’s All About Love

Love is one of the most overused and misunderstood words in the English language. We throw it around with the ease of a worn out cliché. The danger of this is the false security of feeling that we have a clear understanding of love, when a great deal of the time we are simply serving the emotional needs in our lives. That is why we end up feeling cheated, hurt or confused by love. It doesn’t turn out to be what we thought it was at all. So, if we are to move past the roller coaster of our fickle feelings and emotions, how are we to discover and experience love at all?

Songwriters sing of love, poets write of love, philosophers describe love; but only God knows what makes love real. His description is inspiring, challenging, uplifting and convicting - all at the same time. Join us as we make our journey through the road map of love…1st Corinthians 13. When it comes to life and you boil it all down…It is All About Love!

Join us this weekend at 9:30am and 10:45am

CONNECTION

First we want to help people to Connect with God on an authentic basis. This is not about religious conformity or plastic clichés. No, we want people…people far from God, and people who have known Him for decades to move in close for a real, personal, and intimate relationship with Him.

COMMUNITY

Next, we want to encourage and equip people to move into a Community with Others. We need each other. Yet, for past hurts, broken trust, or personal issues, we tend to keep others at a distance. Real community, though, is the place that God has created for us to experience the journey of life. It is here that we share each other’s burdens, victories, and love.

COMPASSION

The third leg of our mission is to share Compassion with our Community. We cannot be obedient to our calling to follow Jesus Christ until we have engaged in genuine action and compassion for the least, the last, and the lost. So, we will seek to be the hands, feet, mouth, ears, and heart of Jesus to a hurting world around us. We must show them that there is a loving Savior who loves them and cares deeply for them.