The Brookfield Guarantee
There are two things that we absolutely guarantee to those who attend Brookfield Bible Church.
First, we guarantee that there is a 100% chance that at least once (probably multiple times) you will be offended by someone or something at Brookfield, or equally likely, you will be the one who does the offending.
Take heart, this simply gives us the privilege of giving back the grace and humility that God has given to each one of us.
Second, we guarantee that you will not like 100% of what we do at Brookfield.
If you are looking for a church that is a perfect fit for your family, we guarantee that Brookfield isn’t the place.
Why is that?
Well, Jesus told us that the greatest commandment was that we are to “love the Lord our God with all of our heart, soul, and mind” and that the second greatest commandment was to “love our neighbors as ourselves.” Tragically, many times we love ourselves first, God second, and our neighbors somewhere further down the line. When we possess that kind of attitude, we expect the church to meet all of our needs – and that simply isn’t what church is all about.
Ultimately, being part of a church family is far more about blessing God and others than seeking blessing for ourselves. As such, there are going to be days when you don’t like the style of music that we sing or the particular section of God’s Word that we teach. But when you love God and others more than yourself, God will help you be okay with that.
When we are preaching on a passage of the Bible that is hard and you leave the worship service convicted rather than feeling good about yourself, you will be blessed because you know God is blessed by our repentance, obedience, and humility.
When a church leader, or anyone else in the church family inevitably fails to meet your expectations and you feel wounded, you will find blessing through the forgiveness and restoration given when you seek that person out to humbly and biblically reconcile the hurt.
When ministry teams make decisions dealing with preference or opinion that you do not agree with, it will give you the opportunity to reflect on the more major things we do agree on such as being a Gospel centered and mission focused church.
Take heart, even though Brookfield isn’t the perfect church, it is a great church—a church filled with sin struggling saints who have been transformed by the life giving Gospel of Jesus Christ, who greatly desire others to experience the hope, joy, peace, and love that comes with faith in him