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
To Suffer with God/ Hebrews 2:10-18
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Pastor Mark Bergin
The word compassion means “to suffer with.” Compassionate people, then, are not those who merely express sentiments of care for the hurting, but rather those who step into that very hurt and sit alongside the wounded. It is quite easy to consider ourselves compassionate until we see compassion defined for the ages. Jesus left the glory of the heavens to sit in the mire of our broken world. He came to join us in all this pain. And for what purpose? It was not to prove himself compassionate. On the contrary, with disregard for his own reputation, he came to embody and minister a mysterious healing. He came to lead humanity to the shores of divinity. And to our awful surprise, divinity bore the shape of a cross.