Welcome to Elmvale Community Church. We are a community of believers in Jesus Christ committed to Loving God and Loving Others. We follow in the Way of Jesus and dedicate ourselves to: Being with Jesus. Becoming like Jesus. Doing what Jesus did.
- We are finding wholeness in sharing community with neighbours marked by generosity and self-sacrifice.
- We are finding freedom submitting our lives to the leading of the Spirit to do bold and audacious things for God.
- We are finding peace in doing the right things, not the popular things.
- We are finding significance and joy in living love and restoring people, marriages, families, our community, and the world around us back to God.
Checkout our latest teaching below:
Sin is ultimately a lack of love, either for God or for your neighbour. Augustine borrowed this thought from Jesus, who when He was asked what the most important law was, answered:
Mt. 22:37-40, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”
Or as Augustine summarizes, “The essence of sin is disordered love.”
If humanity, because of the shame of sin, is inclined to run away from God instead of towards Him… And if some people are never given a fair shake on whether to listen and obey or reject Him… It is necessary for us to trust that a JUST JUDGE will alone decide whether someone is worthy of eternal life or worthy of judgement.