VisionWho are we? In a nutshell, we are a new church starting up in downtown Denver. We are mostly students, young working professionals, young couples and young families (anyone else who wants to join us is welcome). We are passionate about our relationship with God!
Firehouse No. 1 is a church designed around having real and meaningful relationships with the Living God, the God of the Bible. God is described as being "a consuming fire" and also as the "God who is passionate about his relationship with you." Our desire is to get to know and worship God with reverence and awe in response to His loving and holy presence. We are passionate about God's Word! Speaking through the prophet Jeremiah God declares, "Is not My Word like fire?" We believe that God's Word has the ability to passionately motivate, supernaturally inspire, radically transform, and mysteriously melt, even the hardest of hearts. We teach life transforming truth from the Bible in ways that are relevant and helpful for living in this generation. We believe the Bible is inspired by God and useful for teaching us how to live. It also teach us how get the most out of this life, and how to prepare for eternity. We are devoted to prayer! Jesus said "My house will be called a house of prayer" and His first disciples were "continually devoting themselves to prayer." Prayer is often over-looked and under-estimated in much of the modern day church, but we believe it is essential for living for God. And essential to accomplish our mission in this world. Where are we going? We have been given the greatest mission in the world: To reach every person in the world with the message of God's love and forgiveness that was shown through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ... And to make radically devoted followers of Jesus (i.e. disciples) from those who believe His message and receive Him. Disciples, who are willing to expend their lives for Jesus and His "good news". How are we going to get there? Like the first disciples of Jesus, in the early church, we are devoted to prayer, God's Word, fellowship, and worship. We meet weekly in 'small groups' and on the week-ends we have a larger gathering for the whole church. (see Acts 2:42-47) Our hope is to reach 'one life at a time, one world in our lifetime'. We believe that the local church is God's vehicle to reach the people of all nations. Through loving devotion to God, and to our church family, our goal is to reach the world in our generation -- or die trying. What is the "good news" or gospel of Jesus Christ? The gospel is the good news about what God has done for us through the life, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, the good news doesn't make much sense without first learning the bad news. The bad news is that every person in the world has a deadly disease. This disease is worse than cancer. Though cancer can destroy our body and end our life on Earth, the disease we have is more like a spiritual cancer. It can destroy our body and our soul for all eternity.
But the good news is that God has provided a cure for us in the person of Jesus Christ. This cure doesn't come in the form of pills or injections, it comes through faith in God's gracious work of Jesus dying on the cross. For anyone who believes, His death serves as a substitution for the horrible punishment that you and I deserve (because of our selfish disease of sin). This was all motivated by God's love for us and His desire to have us spend eternity with Him in heaven. The alternative is perishing for the consequences of our sin for all eternity, separated from God and all that is good, in hell. In John 3:16, this story is summarized, simply and powerfully: "For God so loved the world, he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him, shall not perish but have eternal life." If you have any questions about the gospel, please
contact our pastor, Rich Thatcher via phone at |
The Bible calls this spiritual cancer "sin", and
it also says that each of us have it, "For all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God." The Bible also states that our sin will
bring about death for each of us, as it is written: "the wages of sin
is death." This includes physical death (separation from our body),
spiritual death (separation from God), and eternal death (separation from
God forever). This is obviously the bad news.