Why Did God Create Us?

Thanks for joining us for worship and a message from Pastor Mark. We hope you experience God through worship and the word this morning.

Why God Created Us.

God did not create us to live isolated, self protected, or casually connected. He created us for sacred community.

From the very beginning, God’s design for His people was not individual performance but shared devotion. We are better together, stronger together, and able to reflect His love more fully when we live connected lives.

The early church in Acts 2:42–47 gives us a clear picture of what this kind of community looks like. Believers were not simply attending church services. They were devoted to one another. They shared meals, resources, prayers, and their lives. Their faith was lived out together, not privately or selectively.

This kind of community required openness, generosity, and responsibility. It meant moving beyond being church consumers and becoming people who carried ownership of one another’s spiritual well being. Their love was active, sacrificial, and visible and it became deeply attractive to those watching from the outside.

The message challenges us to ask an honest question: Are we living like the church in Acts, or are we avoiding what we were created for?

We often present the “front yard” version of our lives. The part that looks put together. Some people are invited into the living room. A few into the kitchen. But the backyard, the messy, hidden, unfinished parts of us, stays locked.

Sacred community requires more than surface connection. It requires trusted relationships where responsibility and access go hand in hand. Healing happens when we allow others to help us work out our salvation, not alone, but together.

Jesus made it clear that love is the measure. In Matthew 22:37–39, He connects love for God directly to love for others. We are called to love with all that we are, not selectively, not safely, but fully.

The church in Acts loved each other with that kind of depth. They were all in. Front yard, living room, kitchen, and backyard. That unity reflected the very nature of God Himself. Jesus prayed for this kind of oneness in John 17:11, asking that His followers would be one just as He and the Father are one.

Sacred community is not casual. It is committed. It is marked by shared responsibility, mutual care, and deep respect for both God and one another. In this kind of community, no one is overlooked, no one is uninvolved, and no one walks alone.

This is what God created us for. And when we live this way, Scripture tells us that each day the Lord adds to the fellowship those who are being saved.

Not because of programs.

Not because of performance.

But because love like that cannot be ignored.