Shelter for all weather

SUMMARY: The church is meant to be a place of refuge for sinners who seek God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Just as God commanded Joshua to establish cities of refuge for murderers, the church becomes a city of refuge when Jesus is the center of all that it does and envisions. However, there are some who come to the church looking for refuge for convenience or to acquire a new identity, rather than for Christ. The difference between the cities of refuge established by Joshua and the Church of the Savior of the World is that in the latter, even murderers who are found guilty in the world can be forgiven and find salvation through the grace of Jesus. The church must also be a refuge for good soldiers of Christ who may fall in spiritual warfare, providing love and grace for the wounded who seek comfort and help.

I am sure that at some point in your life you have heard people say that they like to go to church because there you breathe peace, harmony, tranquility. That's true, but it can often be disappointing. The church we are the redeemed by the blood of Christ, but we are still far from perfection.

Truly the church must go to seek God and meet his son Jesus Christ. He is peace. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you ”(John 14.27a). Whoever lives in the Spirit enjoys supernatural peace (the one that "passes all understanding" (Phil 4.7)). It is not the church that produces peace, but the presence of the Spirit in the lives of each of its members. When the redeemed attest to the presence of God in their lives and testimonies, then the church becomes a spiritual home - with or without walls - a place of refuge for sinners who seek God's grace, for those who They come loaded down (the product of sin) and weary (from all their toils) and accept God's grace in their lives through faith in Jesus Christ.