everyone belongs
But do we get HIM?
Many of you are familiar with the “He Gets Us” campaign and its premise that Jesus understands all of our frailties, fears, faults, and dysfunction. I think they got that right.
But in other ways, I think they’ve missed the mark.
At upRising, we know that God loves us, and yes, gets us, and we believe that our faithful response to God‘s love is to love God and our neighbors well. It’s easy to get discouraged these days by all that’s happening around us, so we lean on God and each other to help us live with more trust, joy, hope, and faith.
If you’d like to learn more about us, please send me an email, check out the rest of our website and our FaceBook page, or visit us for Saturday or Sunday worship.
Always in Hope,
Rev. Karen Woodworth
Sr. Pastor
karen.woodworth@uprisingaustin.org
Worship with us Sundays at 10 am!
and on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Saturdays at 7 pm!
“when jesus said ‘love your neighbor’ he knew that your neighbor would look, act, believe, and love differently than you. that’s kind of the whole point.”
– toby mac
“the prophetic tasks of the church are to: tell the truth in a society that lives in an illusion, grieve in a society that practices denial, and express hope in a society that lives in despair.”
– walter brueggemann
“we draw people to christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, nor by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely they want, with all their hearts, to know the source of it.”
– madeleine l’engle