Recovery Church
Soldotna
Main GatherinG
2nd & 4th Sunday's 5pm
@Peninsula Grace Church 44175 K-Beach Rd.
House Church:
1st & 3rd Sunday'S 5pm
some locations also meet throughout the week
REVIVAl + MULTIPLY = GLORY
THE GOSPEL
The story begins with one God who created everything and everything he made was good, right and perfect. He placed humans in a garden at the center of His creation. God called these people to be servants who would reflect his goodness as they lovingly cultivated the world under God’s loving care and protection.
Rather than trusting God’s goodness and greatness, the humans chose rebellion against God, serving themselves instead of God. The consequences were massive as the entire creation fell under a curse. Sin, like a parasite, entered into God’s good creation and began eating away. God’s good creation fell further and further into despair. The people who were supposed to lovingly cultivate went further into hatred and violence and selfishness.
God gave a promise that He would deal with the problem of sin and death that were infecting His good creation. He called one family to be his servants demonstrating and declaring His good reign. This family became a great nation charged to carry this blessing to every other nation. He rescued them over and over and over again. But they continually rebelled until finally God let them go. Years turned into decades, decades turned into centuries. The people dreamed and hoped for the day when God would send their savior, and all creation would be restored.
Jesus was God’s servant who would straighten out the mess, rescue his people, and carry the blessing to all the other nations. If Jesus was the one to bring redemption, that meant the other powers weren’t, and they didn’t like that. Jesus was killed on a cross, bearing the sin of the world in his flesh. But three days later, Jesus was raised to life. The long awaited restoration had dawned!
The story wasn’t over yet. This good news had to be announced and proclaimed to the whole world. Jesus sent his followers (the church) out into the world to be servants who would demonstrate and declare this good news. They were to live together as a foretaste of what has already dawned and will soon by fully revealed in the new heaven and new earth.
Jesus will return one day at the end of the story. He will put an end to all the evil, wrong, and brokenness once and for all, finally and fully. HE will declare victory over satan and sin and suffering. He will rule. He will bring restoration, and the elect will finally be restored back to perfect fellowship with God as they enjoy his presence and serve him forever.