This Sunday, we continue our series on the core values of Lake Merritt United Methodist Church. Our focus is on Christ — we strive to live and love like Jesus.

Siblings, why do you follow Jesus? What draws you to strive to live and love as he did when our world seems to be living in scarcity and fear as the federal employees are working without pay, furloughed workers are taking out bank loans to pay their bills, healthcare premiums are skyrocketing, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are at risk?

In a time when faith can feel fractured or co-opted by fear, we return to Jesus’ radical compassion and love and how he taps into God’s divinity in him. Come and join us as we seek together the way of Jesus—grounded in love, guided by grace, and open to transformation.