Rediscover Salisbury Church

Rediscover Life Church is Salisbury is the new name of the city's former Elim Pentecostal Church. The building itself strikes me as late Victorian or Edwardian, but of its original users I cannot find trace. The spire and gothic windows seem somewhat anachronistic with the congregation’s likely exuberance and eccentric name. With this in mind, a section on their website is used to offer justification, which I quote below:

Previously known as Salisbury Elim Church, we changed our name a number of years ago & we are now called Rediscover Life Church.  We believe that our name is a more accurate & easily understandable name which describes our mission, for Salisbury & the surrounding areas & for everyone! Which is to rediscover the life that God always intended for us to have.

The cost of living crisis, debt, loneliness, health issues, family breakdown & wars & natural disasters further, can all impact us deeply. Whatever you are facing in life or indeed have faced in the past, we believe now it is time to rediscover life, and rediscover it in the fullness that only a vibrant relationship with God can provide. It is a time of great uncertainty in the world & many are seeking an authentic & real encounter with God.

This is not the best explanation of the gospel I have heard, but I daresay that better ones exist elsewhere on the site if I took the trouble to find them. ‘Rediscovering life’ indicates that we used to have it but somehow lost or misplaced it, perhaps on account of the aforementioned societal ills, like debt and loneliness. Yet the Bible describes us as ‘dead in trespasses and sins’, not merely being too busy or sad to carry on the lovely lives we used to have. One might rediscover church, or rediscover God having been brought up in a Christian home or Sunday School, but life is something we receive only by believing in Christ. Of the church's five leaders, three are ladies, so this church would do well to rediscover the Bible.

But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. John 20:31

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