EKKLESIA

Ekklesia At Comfest This Year Ekklesia Church will be participating in this year's Comfest in Goodale Park on June 27, 28 and 29. We'd love to have you stop by our booth and say hello to us and hear what God is up to in the Short North and around the world in the Church for his glory! We'll have information available on our local and global partnerships with organizations like Camp Sunrise, Wings of Hope Foundation, Blood: Water Mission and Project Open Hand. See you at Comfest!

The Missional Church

The Missional Church demonstrates the essence and glory of God in the way we worship, care for one another and live within our world.

Because Ekklesia is missionary (missional), by nature we seek engagement with our culture. We want our culture to know that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. We reflect the glory of God to the surrounding culture and invite them to join us in pursuing satisfaction in God. We both demonstrate and verbalize the gospel message of salvation through Jesus Christ as part of the mission.

Ekklesia, as a missional church is a source of hope for all people, and is witness to the new identity and vision, the new way of life that has become a reality in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit…how we live points to God and his glory and his greatness.

Jesus' compassionate response to human need was an integral part of the message he preached; they were the observable realities that the reign and the glory of God was present in the world. At Ekklesia we live as a missional church through words of love, deeds of love, and lives of love.

John 1:2 "He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made." John Piper writes "If God exists, then he is the measure of all things, and what he thinks about all things is the measure of what we should think." The big question for all of humanity is "does God exist." It may come as a shock to some of us Christians to know that we CANNOT pro...


The Missional Church demonstrates the essence and glory of God in the way we worship, care for one another and live within our world.



	Pagan Christianity
Most of what present-day Christians do in Church each Sunday is rooted, not in the New Testament, but in pagan culture and rituals developed long after the death of the Apostles.