The Painted Door Church - Chicago
The Painted Door Church is church family that gathers in Chicago, IL. We are a people who share the same story; we are sinner, saved by grace. We draw our name from the Exodus account in the Hebrew Scriptures, when God spared his people from judgement, passing over all homes that had the blood of a spotless lamb painted across their doorways. Jesus is the new spotless lamb, his death on a Roman cross sparing the people of God from judgment once for all. He reconnects us to our Maker and to each other and invites us to participate in his grand work of restoring all things.
The Painted Door Church - Chicago
Partakers of Divine Nature/ 2 Peter 1:1-4
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Pastor Mark Bergin
We are all born into corruption, full of disordered desire. But God made us for something far sweeter. He made us to desire what is pure and true and beautiful. He made us for life to the full. So how is it that we are to move from the effects of corruption, our own and that around us, into the riches of what God gives? The answer is not complex, but it is painful: God means to replace our nature with the nature of Christ. That is, he means to slaughter our sinful person, and raise the person of Christ within us. He means to kill everything false about us until we become partakers of the divine nature. This is the only way into life. And there are no half measures.