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Christ Centered
Because God first loved us we are motivated to share that love with others. This allows us to rely on Christ to become people capable of self-giving love. Galatians 2:19-20 reminds us of the One we live and serve, “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Christian Community
We believe we are created to live in community. A sign of a community that is alive is one that welcomes a stranger. Our hope at the LYN House is to be a place of existing believers that welcome “strangers” to be a part of our existing community. By considering ourselves to be a community, we are welcoming those who walk in our doors to become our friend. We are willing to eat, drink, laugh, cry, and share our stories together. Acts 2:42-47 reminds us of the community we desire to be: “They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.” We hope to experience this type of community at the LYN House.
Compassionate Hospitality
Author Henri Nouwen defines hospitality as “primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy.”[1] Romans 15:7 says, “Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.” We want to be a place that extends welcome to strangers and accepts them where they are.
Transformational Care
The LYN House believes that it is through the transformational love of Jesus Christ that a person can experience true change. We believe that those who volunteer and those who come to the LYN House for services will experience change and transformation. Jesus reminded his disciples that when we invite the “least of these” we will be blessed. Luke 14:12-14 says, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
Wholistic
The LYN House believes in ministering to the whole person and the entire family. The ministries at the LYN House are designed to meet educational, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals, so that each member of the family is strengthened and experience the transformational love of Jesus Christ. Matthew 25:34-36 says: “Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'”
[1] Henry Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life”. (New York: Doubleday, 1986), 71. |
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