Northside Christian Church

"First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make more and more individualistic choices about their lives, and those choices unavoidably diminished group efforts toward a common good. And as society modernized, people found themselves able to live independently from any communal group. A person living in a modern city or suburb can, for the first time in history, go through an entire day – or an entire life – mostly encountering complete strangers. They can be surrounded by others and yet feel deeply, dangerously alone.”
SEBASTIAN JUNGER, TRIBES

“If you belong to no groups, but decide to join one, you cut your risk of dying over the next year in half.”
ROBERT PUTNAM

"We are to be a commercial announcement of life in God's kingdom."
PASTOR TONY EVANS

A diverse humanity brought together by salvation in Jesus Christ

All who belong to Jesus have a place fully in his family.

Οικ = oik

When you have trusted your life to Jesus:
-you can come near God’s house.
-belong to God’s house.
-you’re a member of the household.
-the house is for you.
-God is in the process of building you into his house.
-His house is for you.

There’s no such thing as orphan Christians.

The greater our diversity, the greater Christ's glory.

We see people who have exchanged their independence for interdependence.