Unfortunately, sometimes the impression the church gives is that buildings and systems are more important than people. Our prayer is that God changes that in us. In this way we can show the world what true church is all about.

One way this can happen is to embrace humility. Christians should be teachable, and Christ is our teacher. God has given us the Bible as the way to know him and the way to life. Jesus is the personal disclosure of God himself. As fully God and fully man, Jesus did what we could not. Humility is recognizing one's lack and inability. Arrogance is blindly thinking we do not need Jesus (and letting others know that by our attitudes and actions). As humility is lived out, church becomes a place more like a hospital than a country club.

So our "hospital" has but one physician: Jesus Christ. He heals us by his death on the cross. He took our sins, transgressions, and failures and paid the entire debt we owed to God's righteous law. In exchange for our turning from sin and trusting in Jesus' finished work, God gives us the full right standing before God that we in ourselves could never have accomplished. Jesus' perfect obedience is credited to our bankrupt accounts when we put our faith in Christ alone. This is the good news of Jesus, and the Bible sums up this mission for the hospital-church:

“All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:18–21, ESV)