About Us
Our Mission
Hope Community Church is a community of believers located in Lincoln, Nebraska. Through our welcoming, modern, and biblically-centered approach to worship, our community groups, and our Body of Hope service teams, we are working to bring people into a closer relationship with Christ while enabling them to share that relationship with others. In a world that often feels hopeless, Hope works to restore hope to our communities through genuine faith, service, and love.
“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.”
— Romans 12:4-5
Our Beliefs
Jesus Changes Everything
The Bible tells us that Jesus shows us exactly who God is (because Jesus is God) and also what it means to be truly human (because Jesus is human). We believe the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus has changed and continues to change our world. Together, we seek to be transformed by Jesus and to share his life and love with others.
Life is Good
The Bible tells us God created a world that was bursting with life and that originally God’s dimension (heaven) and our dimension (earth) were interconnected. We believe God’s plan is for humans to be his primary channels to continue the blessing and nurturing of all life. We partner with God in both caring for this world and working towards the day when heaven and earth will be connected again.
Evil is Real
The Bible makes it plain that humans have selfishly pursued their own good, and the consequences have impacted all our relationships – with God, each other, ourselves, and the world. We believe human selfishness has resulted in devastating, society-wide evils (like racism) and in everyday problems (like a family squabble). We recognize that we are part of the problem even as we oppose evil in all its forms.
The Way of Jesus
The Bible calls everyone to follow the Way of Jesus. We believe that following Jesus is more than just confessing a set of beliefs – it is learning a way of life that impacts how we think, how we feel, how we relate to others, how we live in our bodies, and what we hope for concerning our future. We commit ourselves to learning how to live and share this whole-person, radical transformation for everyday people.
God is a Team Player
The Bible insists that God almost always partners with humans. We believe God chose to work through the family of Abraham and Sarah (the people of Israel), but since the resurrection of Jesus and the giving of the Holy Spirit, the people of God have expanded to include all who follow Jesus. We look for ways we’re being invited to join in God’s work in this world, and we welcome any opportunity to do this work with others.
God is a Community of Oneness
The Bible describes God as both deeply personal and infinitely greater than personal. We believe that “trinity” comes closest to describing this existence: God’s ability to be both ruling and serving, sending and going, saving and judging, singular and plural. Together as Christians, we both wait for and pursue this triune God who is so beautifully loving and yet so far beyond our understanding.
The Bible is God’s Story
“The Bible describes…” “The Bible tells…” The Bible is where we go to find out who God is and what God has done (and is doing) to restore our world. We believe it reflects a unique partnership between God and dozens of authors over hundreds of years. We place ourselves under the Bible’s authority by studying it both together and individually, trusting that God will speak to us through its pages.
Visit Us
4700 S Folsom
Lincoln, NE 68523
In-Person Worship
Sunday
10am-11am
Phone
(402) 423-8855