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This past Sunday, we explored our fourth and fifth core values at Hope Church- We live like Culture Matters and that the World Needs Hope. As followers of Jesus, we often feel that we are constantly at odds with the trends and forces shaping our culture. However, when we focus on places of overlap with our Christian worldview and engage fully in those areas, we are given an opportunity to tangibly present the Hope of Jesus to the world. 
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This past Sunday, we explored our third core value at Hope Church- We live like Community is Essential. We are living through what many have called an epidemic of loneliness, where social connection and authentic community are becoming increasingly rare. Unfortunately, the church is no exception to this trend. The church in our day is often viewed as an event or social group that leaves many Christians unfulfilled. However, in Scripture, we are given a vision of how the new community of Jesus, the body of Christ, can exemplify unity, dependence, and maturity in our socially disconnected age. 
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This past Sunday, we explored the first two of our five core values at Hope Church: We live like the Bible is True and that the Gospel Changes Us. While many people have various ways of understanding the Bible and its role in the Christian life, at Hope Church, we believe that the Bible is a unified story that leads to Jesus. And as we explore that story (Creation, Fall, Israel, Jesus, New Creation), we uncover good news or  “gospel” that has transformed lives and communities all over the world. 
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This is Sunday we talked about the mission statement of Hope Church and how we practically live that out as a church body and as individuals.

Mission Statement:
We exist to bring hope to our community by practicing the way of Jesus until it is in Nashville as it is in Heaven.
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This past Sunday, we explored the role that suffering plays in our spiritual formation, or how we are “shaped by suffering.” While many of us don’t like to consider how our suffering might be used for our spiritual maturity, the consistent teaching of the New Testament is that suffering is one of the primary means God uses to form the character of Christ in us. In the letter of 1 Peter, we are instructed to yield our suffering to God, knowing that it has the capacity to shape in us a resilient faith, a deeper joy, and an eternal hope.
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