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Believing and Trusting
Understanding our faith
Formed-Broken-Healed-Restored
Welcome to this page for people exploring life with God. We hope it helps you take your next step into a loving relationship with God though Jesus Christ.
This page is for people hoping to find out more about growing into a life with God. We thank Hope Together for their beautiful resources, and hope they speak to you of God’s love for us.
We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Welcome
Welcome, we are so glad you have found this page. Maybe you have arrived because you are just exploring, have read a leaflet, or maybe you are looking to find out more and are wanting to connect with others. Whatever your situation, we hope it will help you take your next step into a loving relationship with God though Jesus Christ.
On this page you will find things to read, things to do and ways to connect with other people who can accompany you as you explore further.
Break through to Beauty:
Formed Made by the Creator
The universe is a masterpiece of art and design, from the awe-inspiring outer reaches of the universe seen through the Hubble telescope to the microscopic workings of every cell. Each element reflects its Creator, who was there, in the beginning, to speak our world into existence.
There’s a reason people marvel at the world. It’s because the very same Creator has made you, and to see the world is to see a vision of your maker.
There’s a poem in the Bible that says:
We are the clay, and you our potter; we are all the work of your hand. Isaiah 64:8
You were created by God who made the whole universe; he loves and cares for you deeply.
Broken Living in a shattered world
When God formed the universe, he reviewed his work, and it was good. Looking at our world today, we see the things that are good. But we also see the bad things. God’s good world has been broken by the mistakes and wrongs of people who stopped following God’s plan for their own.
The things we do wrong have broken the relationship we were meant to have with the good, perfect God. As a result, we might feel fear, guilt, shame, and addiction; we might feel a sense of brokenness in ourselves. But God is a creator and a healer; God planned for restoration.
Healed In the hands of the Healer
God is a healer. Nothing pains God more than the absence of a healthy relationship with those he made. So, God sent his Son, Jesus, into his creation to heal the rift between himself and the people he created. By taking the consequence for our wrongdoings upon Himself on the cross, Jesus has brought us forgiveness and restored our relationship with our Creator.
If we ask God to forgive the wrongs we do which break the world, we can begin anew with God the Healer, with all the love, goodness and life that brings. He remakes us beautifully, restoring all that was broken.
Restored Living with purpose
Jesus rose from the dead and started a new creation, with a promise to bring all things back into the right relationship with God. Having found healing through Jesus, we are invited to live out our intended purpose: God working through us to reveal his love, healing, and beauty to the world.
Living with Jesus, we find ourselves filled with the joyful freedom and glory of his presence, longing for eternity with him. Jesus promises us this life after death, a promise that this world is not the end, a hope in an eternal future more extraordinary and fulfilling than we can imagine.
Our relationship with God will be restored and we will dwell forever in our eternal home with God. That hope makes all the difference. What is broken now will become beautiful and good once more.
Now what?
You are not alone. There are people who experience and know the depths of God’s constant love for us across Greater Lincolnshire, and throughout the world. Select from the buttons below to read more about Jesus, start to pray or connect with others to explore this beautiful hope.
What would you say if Mark, the writer of this book of Jesus’ life, could show you that life is not just what you can see and feel around you but there is more, so much more? Mark discovered this 2,000 years ago and he wrote down this eyewitness account so that you could see for yourself.
We all struggle.
Sometimes life can be overwhelming. Pause, find clarity and pray for the challenges you see and face. Hope Spaces is here to help guide you through your feelings and thoughts. It starts with a hope.
