What Does that Look Like?

The World Culture is a hyper-busy place that depersonalizes, alienates, and segregates. It is transient, shallow, and offers empty promises. It crushes hopes and dreams, embitters, and fosters distrust. It stunts growth and gives a false sense of community. It enslaves and impoverishes us spiritually, mentally, emotionally and bodily;and fragments our selves. It fears strangers and dislikes differences. It frantically seeks youth and beauty and fears death and pain. It desperately seeks happiness and pleasure but can never be satisfied, content or truly joyful. Its heroes are flawed icons who fail us in the end.

The original Jubilee temporarily restored people to each other, gave rest to people and the land, brought about justice and renewed people’s relationship with their Creator. It was a shadow of the future Kingdom that would come with the Messiah. Jesus ushered in the eternal Jubilee personified in Himself. The old order passed away. The Jubilee Community is all about inviting people to join us in that new order of Jubilee.

It offers a life of simplicity, peace and restoration. It affirms individuals and brings them into wholeness. It is a true community where people love one another by laying down their lives for each other, joyfully sacrificing to love their neighbor. It is a community working to build deep committed relationships that hold one another accountable to be all that their Creator wants them to be. It encourages them to grow all of their lives. It cherishes age, maturity and wisdom; nurtures innocence and protects the weak and broken. It is a refuge of hope but spreads its dreams of beauty into darkness. It seeks out and welcomes strangers into its midst and introduces them to the spiritual reality of a caring God. It embraces and celebrates differences. It easily forgives and relentlessly seeks reconciliation. It brings healing to broken people and comfort to those in pain. It defends the powerless and seeks to bring about justice. It is a community that finds true contentment and fulfillment. It is a people who joyfully renew themselves in communion with their heavenly Father God. It is a community that tells the story of its hero, the only perfect human being: Jesus the Messiah.