Deep and Wide

Do you remember the song “Deep and Wide?”

Deep and wide

Deep and wide

There’s a fountain flowing deep and wide

Deep and wide is a sentiment that we think a lot about at Church of the Cross. We want to be “wide” in the sense that we want to continually reach out to love and serve our neighbors. We want to expand the Kingdom of Jesus, we want to be welcoming and we want to grow. We want to have impact for God. We want to see the Gospel change our city from within. We want to go “wide” into the surrounding culture.

But we also want to be “deep” in the sense that we plumb the depths of the Gospel, continually challenging ourselves to grow in relationship with Jesus and one another. We do not shy away from difficult truths and we consider them together

If we go wide without going deep, well, you guessed it, we’d be shallow. But, if we go deep without going wide, we become insulated. The challenge, it seems is to be both deep and wide.