Community Center Church  ·  The Word

One hand on the Bible.
One hand on the newspaper.

We don't preach at people. We open the text together and ask what it means for life today — this week, this community, this moment. That's been the whole mission since day one.

How We Approach The Text
"What does the Bible mean today? Not then. Not in theory. Today."

Our sermons are discourses — not performances. Pastor Michael brings the preparation, the text, the historical and theological context. The room completes it. Different people bring different questions, different weeks, different pain points. That's not a distraction from the Word. That's the Word doing what it was always meant to do.

We read the text in its Jewish roots. We take the horizontal commandments — person to person — as seriously as the vertical ones. We believe theology that doesn't engage the actual world people are living in this week is just religious performance.

We also recite the Nicene Creed and the Lord's Prayer — and we stop to explain them. Nothing inherited without understanding what was inherited.

Recent Messages

The Word — watch, listen, think.

Join The Conversation

The sermon doesn't end when the recording stops.

The Word is meant to be wrestled with — not just consumed. Join us live on Sundays and bring your questions. Or come to Tuesday's Community Conversation where any topic is welcome and no question is off limits.

Sunday — 1st, 3rd & 5th

Conversation & The Word

3:00 PM via Zoom. Come as you are. Bring your week.

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Tuesday

Community Conversation

6:00 PM via Zoom. Any topic. Any question. We listen before we speak.

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"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."

Hebrews 4:12

Don't just watch.
Come wrestle with it.

The text is better in community. Pull up a chair this Sunday and bring your questions.

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