Healing & Hope - Crafting a TOV Culture at River City Church

River City Church - Cambridge, ON

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Welcome to River City Church Online. Thank you for joining us today as we continuing our series called Crafting a Culture of Healing & Hope in the Church.
Today's message has been presented by Greg Bowering.

A healthy church is one where every person is seen, heard, and valued.

A healthy church has carefully crafted a culture of goodness, dignity, and respect.

However, both history and our current headlines reveal a church that can be a deeply flawed, sinful, and unhealthy institution, marred by acts of injustice, corruption, abuse, misogyny, and oppression. Indeed, far from having “goodness cultures” too many churches today have “toxic” cultures!

So, is this vision of a healthy church even possible or is this vision idealistic and unattainable this side of heaven?

Here at River City Church, we believe that a healthy church is possible, but creating one will takes all of us working together deliberately following a map.

This new series will give us the map and will both equip and challenge us to turn this this dream into a reality.

Characteristics of “tov churches,” using the common Hebrew word regularly translated “good”.

The gospel as “the message of tov”; it is “about God’s tov coming to us in Jesus, who is tov, and thus making us into agents of tov”.

Tov churches with a “goodness culture” nurture these seven elements:

1. empathy and compassion
2. grace and graciousness
3. putting people first
4. truth telling
5. justice
6. service
7. Christlikeness.

Such churches will “resist abuses of power, promote healing, and eradicate the toxic fallout that infects so many Christian organizations”.

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We are located at 215 South Street, Cambridge, Ontario.

God bless you today and we hope to see you soon.
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