Our Vision

One of the first things you'll notice about Marion is that it is richly steeped in its history and beautifully diverse in its people. Unfortunately, Marion is also the home to much poverty, broken people, and fractured families. This is why we’ve named our church Contrast. We want to be constantly reminded that this body of believers exists in contrast to the brokenness of the world around us. Contrast Church exists not only to love God but also to love and serve people. We know from Jesus's example that Christians are never called to religion apart from people. Throughout His life, Jesus confronted the religious elite for having an exterior religiosity that never showed in love and care for others around them (Matthew 23:1-32). We believe it is the heart of God that our love of Him and His Word sinks so far into who we are, it is manifested on a daily basis. Micah says we are to “act justly and love mercy” while we walk with the LORD (Micah 6:8). We are devoted to establishing a biblical community in which believers can grow in their relationship with the LORD through "iron sharpening iron" (Proverbs 27:17), as well as a community that loves and seeks to build up one another, seeing others as greater than ourselves (Philippians 2:3).