About Our Church

Our story didn’t begin with a dream to start a church that will help change the way people think about God. No, our story begins with God himself at the beginning of all things. It begins with a word spoken by the Creator, a word uttered that caused everything to spring into existence. And from that word an idyllic paradise arose.

It took a turn for the worse, however, when the first people chose to deliberately and defiantly rebel against their creator. In that moment worlds crash into one another and the rest of human history would never be the same. Once, the experience was connection – to God and to one another – the new experience is isolation and alienation, our experience even to this very day.

But there was a glimmer of hope. Even as the man and the woman have to clothe their vulnerability due to their own rebellion, God supplied hope. God in his great mercy, kindness, and grace promised to one day restore all things.

But life was tragically altered in that moment and human history has suffered in the hangover of the crash even to this day. The ancient story is one of human struggle – an attempt to live for God but failing all along the way. It seems people were never intended to live for God on their own and so he must do something dramatic to alter the cycle of fidelity, idolatry, judgment, cries, and restoration. God had to act, decisively and definitively, for his own reputation’s sake.

So what was he to do? He had sent his messengers but where did that get our forefathers? Even in their attempts to heed the message of God, their hearts were still dark. Humanity’s best attempts were but dirty rags in the eyes of God.

So something amazingly unique and cosmos-changing happened. God stepped down into the human experience. In the person of Jesus, God dwelt among humanity. How odd that the creator of the universe would live among humanity – the One who owns it all, came in the form of a servant, born in a manger, never to have wealth or status or prestige. Not only that, Jesus, the one true Son of God, was murdered.

But even this heinous act of evil was part of God’s great redemptive strategy to reconcile all things to himself. In the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus the universe changed; nothing was to remain the same from that point forward.

This ancient story is ultimately what birthed LifeConnection some 2,000 years later. Because of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus there is now hope for the world that our tomorrow can be different from our yesterday, that we can once again find connection – to God and to one another. There is now hope for rescue from our own sin and rebellion.

And so LifeConnection stands in a long stream of those who have discovered hope. Hope that can only be found in Jesus Christ. Because of this hope we have a dream to see the world transformed by more people finding and grasping hold of this same hope.

So here is LifeConnection – a missional community of truth, beauty, and generosity – squarely situated in Kansas City because of our great love for Kansas City.