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Mosaic Christian Fellowship

Mosaic Christian Fellowship exists to be a community that responds to the grace of God in worship, nurture and missions. We believe all churches are called to the worship of the True and Living God, the nurture of His people and the mission to finish the Great Commission.

  1. Sep 14

    "Children of the Devil or God" by Pastor Dave Park

    1 John 3:1-10 exposes a false gospel: one decision settles salvation and the direction of a life afterward means nothing. John divides the world by paternity, children of the devil and children of God, and the mark of the devil's children is not that they sin but that they make a home in it, a settled trajectory cut loose from any Father. That raises the question the passage forces, since chapter 1 calls anyone claiming to be without sin a liar and chapter 3 says no one born of God keeps on sinning, and the nerve underneath it is the person who has fallen enough times to quietly conclude that this does not work for them and that staying down is the honest option. John's answer lands exactly there. The difference is not falling but staying: for the child of God sin is the stumble and not the walk, and the cringe the morning after, the refusal to be at peace with it, is itself the evidence of the Father's seed, a momentum that will not let a person settle where they landed. Like the runaway on the street corner who looks identical to the orphan beside him but keeps dreaming of a house he belongs to, the child of God cannot stay down because there is a home. And what pulls a person out of the ditch is not white-knuckled effort but beholding what kind of love the Father has given, a Father who in a world where unwanted infants were exposed looked at the deformed and dying and named us and kept us at the cost of His only Son. The prodigal did not become someone else in the pig pen; he remembered he had a father. So the charge is to become who you already are by returning to that love constantly, like coming up for air, until it is grooved deeper than the world's pull and you always know whose child you are and where home is.

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Mosaic Christian Fellowship exists to be a community that responds to the grace of God in worship, nurture and missions. We believe all churches are called to the worship of the True and Living God, the nurture of His people and the mission to finish the Great Commission.

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