The Empty Cross & Tomb

The two central visual symbols of our faith are Jesus’ cross and empty tomb.

We believe that, on the cross, God meets us - hidden in weakness, vulnerable, suffering, forsaken, and dying. Through the empty tomb, God proclaims the ultimate triumph of love over evil and hate and the defeat of everything that separates humanity from God and from each other. 

In the depth of despair, God comes. In our weakness, God encounters us. We do not find God. God finds us - in our pain, our despair, our emptiness, our isolation. Another way of saying this is that we are “justified (saved) by grace through faith!”