As part of our visioning process, our church has worked on naming our core values. There are lots of values any church can name about what they believe to be important, but the point of the process is to find the values that best define the reality and the aspirations of our particular church. And so through months of tough work we came up with five values that define us here at Duneland Community Church.
The value I preached on this past week is: Welcoming All With Grace
DCC has always been a welcoming church. You can sit down and hear the stories of our people and you will hear about people who had never stepped foot in a church before and yet found a home here. You will hear about people rescued from addiction and from heartbreak and from divorce. You will see that we are a congregation that has a diverse socio-economic range. You will see that we are a congregation that is ready to welcome all who walk through our doors. You will also find that we really enjoy our hospitality. People come to our church and they will always be well fed, especially on potluck Sunday!
But welcoming all isn’t the end of the story. We believe that our embracing of all who we encounter, inside our church or outside in everyday living, involves transforming grace. We don’t simply embrace people and call it a day, we embrace all people with God’s grace and the hope that they too with experience the transformation that comes from being embraced by grace and mercy. It is the embrace of someone who accepts you just as you are and dreams and hopes for you to be all that you can be. That is our value as a church and we aspire to make it a reality not just inside the four walls of our building, but in the everyday reality in which we live.

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