<div><DIV><b>We Are the Family of God.</b></div><div> </div><div>When you look at the church today, what do you see? A corporation with a CEO at the helm? A social organization that does good things for the community?</div><div> </div><div>Pastor Ross Parsley believes that neither of those pictures is God's desire. Instead, God wants His church to function as a <i>family</i>—a group of real people who love each other and care for one another's needs, no matter how messy.</div><div> </div><div>Our culture is dying for the kind of community that only the church can provide—<i>if</i> we are living as God intended: as a family, protecting one another, extending grace, and loving unconditionally.</div><div> </div><div>We are not called to be consumers who ask what the church can offer us. We are called to love deeply, fight fairly, and bring hope to a generation of people starving to belong to something greater than themselves. Welcome to the family. You belong here.</div></div>