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Who is God? 2. Who am I? 3. What is God calling me to? https://www.livelikeredwoods.org/what-we-do daily 0.75 2022-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/749bbcf9-31c1-45ba-a865-ee9b320ce8c7/IMG_9586.jpg About Fall 2021 Intern Retreat - We believe that the whole family serving together is important for ministry as well as for the residents. We want them to experience what a family model should be and grow in wisdom from that place. https://www.livelikeredwoods.org/who-we-are daily 0.75 2023-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1641868326038-6ATNILTZ03A6O6G3QLNM/IMG_9929.jpeg Who We Are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1642013373545-1MIQPG1IPMNS6CH5MESX/Emily.jpg Who We Are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1642085537171-2FBNB4J3M1WQOSL3DJR3/84857005_10105835075424428_8173917647323267072_n.jpg Who We Are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1642085558381-5HTTKVA609YZH25S19U9/122172281_10106662719099868_6526251732776263250_n.jpg Who We Are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1642085649165-YOFMXROVOT48O9D0MIWO/66655360_2855897731103656_8731634170209501184_n.jpg Who We Are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1642170227836-PC2IAAP5WXQ1ZYHIAM79/IMG_3076.jpg Who We Are https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1645455029092-AG7CXVVLDB6NSUICQTPL/winklesky.jpeg Who We Are https://www.livelikeredwoods.org/why-sempervirens daily 0.75 2022-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1641869073061-GM4LQ5M19WCTKVAM5Y4H/unsplash-image-K5MBCYe0Ep0.jpg Why Sempervirens? Sequoia Sempervirens, the given scientific name, are strong because their roots are intermingled with their community. They have no tap root, no reliance on the depth of the earth, but instead their roots spread out more than 100 feet, lie 10-12 feet under the surface, and lock in with the trees around them to weather life. And weather life they do, as they survive more than 2000 years and then keep on living. When they do fall, new sprouts spring up from the roots. Hence, the name SemperVirens. Our favorite interpretation of this name is Ever Living. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/70946ca4-4b80-4f3e-b5ad-e898ee980ad6/unsplash-image-I1Voe0IO9tg.jpg Why Sempervirens? - In many ways, this is the story we are living as believers. As the Redwoods rely on moisture from fog, we rely on the Spirit. As Christ lives in us, the mycorhizzae (thread-like fungus) live inside of the roots of Sempervirens enabling it to receive the nutrients it needs to flourish. The redwood tree itself, even though it lives a long time, is just temporary, but it is rooted in the eternal. https://www.livelikeredwoods.org/intern-apply daily 0.75 2022-03-31 https://www.livelikeredwoods.org/donate daily 0.75 2022-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/2fe1c338-1b05-4743-90d5-7feac9a07887/unsplash-image-2jw0pdpVALM.jpg Donate - Your donations are helping us change the world! We are a fully licensed non-profit with the United States government and all donations are tax deductible. Please reach out with any questions or concerns. leeann@livelikeredwoods.org PO Box 892 Jasper, GA 30143 PayPal https://www.livelikeredwoods.org/what-we-believe daily 0.75 2022-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1642474130730-DHQ91TP0DLUR0FAFAC36/unsplash-image-pYlSLXkduQg.jpg What We Believe - “LET THERE BE” We believe God created all things by the overflow of the love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This Love exploded in the song of creation, “Let there be”, from the Father, through the Son, and in the power of the Holy Spirit. The love of God brought into existence all that we know of as the universe in which we live – all things visible and invisible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1642473852528-DSQ8C6DPDBIRM753GL5R/unsplash-image-B32qg6Ua34Y.jpg What We Believe - LIGHT & LIFE & LOVE We believe that the Bible is a unified story which leads us to Jesus, and we believe Jesus is the one who leads us to God. “You loved me,” said Jesus of the Father, “before the foundation of the world (John 17:24).” When we submit to seeing God through Jesus, then we realize that before the world began, God was a Father loving his Son. When we say, “God is Love” we mean God exists as Lover, Beloved, and Love. We believe that God exists as the Trinity and follow St. Augustine’s analogy of Love to help us understand this mystery. As in all relationships of love, there is a Lover, a Beloved, and the Love shared between the Lover and the Beloved. So in God, the Father is the Lover, the Son is the Beloved, and the Holy Spirit is the Love of the Father and the Son. Ultimately, we believe that God is a being of love who is always and forever pouring fourth light and life and love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1642474344687-T7A9VM0ZJPWH2HLET5LG/unsplash-image-bpJ6PD4Inbo.jpg What We Believe - GOD’S HOME IS WITH US We believe the significance of Genesis 1 is that God created the heavens and the earth as his Temple, his dwelling place, and Humans as his Image Bearers. We believe the best we can do in understanding the metaphysical universe is to humbly seek to think God’s thoughts after him, and that in so doing, we will learn incredible things about the universe in which we live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1642474872643-J8SGWU1U99AZJ6ADQ10Q/unsplash-image-nc11Hg2ja-s.jpg What We Believe - IMAGE BEARERS We believe, as God's image bearers, that humanity was created in order to reign alongside God and expand his glory to the ends of creation. We do this by worshipping him and reflecting his glory back to him and refracting his glory out into the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1642475448949-5MGA8SRN5BKSP1Z2JXE9/unsplash-image-HtJGfVyG4rA.jpg What We Believe - ALL THINGS NEW We believe that as a God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – the one who is always pouring forth light, and life, and love – that God’s love is directed at renewing all of creation, the Heavens and the Earth, his dwelling place, and humans especially, his image bearers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1642475301003-Y5C4UESCPUINRG77OZTZ/unsplash-image-jHOg6v6RIIs.jpg What We Believe - BROKEN LOVERS We believe humanity as a whole, created out of the love of God and for the love of God, have turned this love in on themselves. This hoarding of the power of God’s creative love has caused us to suffer from the sin of idolatry, making ourselves God. The idolatry of humanity has brought corruption and decay, not only to the very core of our existence, but also to the foundations of creation itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1647909256085-ZMUUMQ9HNG123UDXK7KO/unsplash-image-oMpAz-DN-9I.jpg What We Believe - PLACES OF HEAVEN We believe that those who believe in the good news of God revealed in Jesus, and confess with their mouth that he is the Lord of their life become people of God’s New Creation. Followers of Jesus are places where Heaven and Earth overlap and intersect, and are small Temples where God makes his home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1647909171619-5G48AE0P5U56WYC4JTZW/unsplash-image-UtWG73BiwE8.jpg What We Believe - RESCUE We believe that God has done this in and through Jesus, the one in whom, by whom, and for whom all things have been created. We believe that God’s plan of rescue went into action through Jesus’ death on the cross, and his resurrection from the dead three days later. God’s New Creation movement began in that moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1647909914626-HON5UUXFR6YQF51ETMDM/unsplash-image-LjqARJaJotc.jpg What We Believe - COMMUNITY We believe that the transformative power of God’s love is to be nurtured and intentionally formed according to the image of Jesus. We believe this intentional process of Spiritual Formation should take place in a community of Jesus followers. A community of Jesus followers is a place of New Creation, a place where Heaven and Earth overlap and intersect, a place where God dwells. These New Creation communities, we believe, are the Church. The unity of the Church across the globe is what causes God’s glory to fill the Earth as the waters cover the sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1647909555758-CNDMCDWI43PF8PEAQ8ZX/unsplash-image-oXjvbhXxm4w.jpg What We Believe - EXPANSION We believe that God’s ultimate plan of rescue comes through followers of Jesus expanding this New Creation in their worship of God and love of others. Followers of Jesus find that God’s creative love has been restored within them, transforming their capacity to love, and like the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, followers of Jesus find that they too have the capacity to pour forth life and light and love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1647910124201-IOIJ728Q1Y9FJPV79DOW/unsplash-image-z1d-LP8sjuI.jpg What We Believe - ALL THINGS NEW We believe the ultimate goal of God is to renew all of creation. This will happen when the Heavens and the Earth are remade. At this time, all of humanity will be raised from the dead – some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who will be raised to everlasting life will be those who have already tasted the fruit of New Creation – the followers of Jesus. The creation of the New Heavens and the New Earth will follow the pattern of the original and all of the Heavens and the Earth, newly made, will be the dwelling place of God. In the New Heavens and the New Earth, all who are raised will exist in the fulness of the Love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/611ef2a919579e5365e98787/1647910000984-AIF7RZ3HV8CPSH5IOWCI/unsplash-image-ZHY7-YaGG2U.jpg What We Believe - THE BIBLE We believe the Bible, in its completed form, is an ancient library of God's movements to redeem all of Creation, and Humanity as his image bearers. We believe the Church is formed into the likeness of Jesus by the Christian Scriptures, the Old and New Testaments. The process of formation into the likeness of Jesus is most transformative when the Christian Scriptures are studied in community and in combination with prayer. The Bible was written over 1500 years, by multiple authors, and in multiple languages. Therefore, as ancient literature, we believe the Bible’s meaning is best understood when the genre, literary, cultural, and historical contexts are taken into account. The goal of studying the Bible is to pursue an understanding of the author’s intended message to their intended audience, then to contextualize that message to our culture and community. Meaning, then, should be pursued in community. It is this wise pursuit through prayer, study, and community that the Bible becomes a means through which the Holy Spirit forms us into the likeness of Jesus.