What does it mean to "refuse to give up"? For a group of people in Canton, Georgia, it refusing to give up on God's dream for the world. It is looking around our world and our community and realizing that hopelessness, loneliness, fear, addiction, crime, injustice, hurt, separation, hunger, bitterness, anger, destroying creation, and serving self over serving others is not what God had in mind when He created the world and created us.
It's time to be different! Too many churches focus too much on the people who are inside and speak against what is going on outside. Instead, we focus on the outside. We believe that there are two things that we can do better than anyone else; these two actually go together. We can love people and serve them better than anyone else.
We believe in and follow a God who says, "I did not create hopelessness, loneliness, fear, addiction, crime, injustice, hurt, separation, hunger, bitterness, anger." So, where there is no hope, we bring hope. Where there is loneliness, we bring friendship. Where there is hurt, we bring healing. Where there is hunger, we bring food. We simply try to "live His dream".
What do you think is God's dream for the world? Most likely, that is what we are refusing to give up on.
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