The river flows from within.
East Gate is a free and love-revived people. We believe God dwells within every person, and we encourage the inward journey: doing the heart work, being transformed from the inside out, and finding a peace that holds steady whatever happens around us.
Why “East Gate”?
Water was coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east… and where the river flows everything will live.
In Ezekiel’s vision the water starts as a trickle at the gate. A man measures it: ankle deep, then knee deep, then waist deep, then a river too deep to cross. Wherever it flows, salt water turns fresh and life returns.
That is our picture of the life of God in a person. It begins quietly, on the inside, and it keeps deepening. We want to live like that river, carrying hope, healing and renewal into every encounter.
God in all of us
Christ is all, and is in all.
Every person is significant and carries the presence of God. That truth shapes how we see people and how we treat them. So we try to clothe ourselves, in the words of the next verse, “with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience” (Colossians 3:12).
We are not a structured church any more. We used to be. Today we simply celebrate humanity, encourage one another, and keep doing the inner work, believing that peace on earth grows one heart at a time.
Love that heals, never torments
We don’t believe in a Father who sentences His children to eternal torment.
“The Lord disciplines the one he loves” (Hebrews 12:6). A loving father corrects to restore, never to destroy. God’s correction is always aimed at healing, and His love has the final word.
Stay close to the river
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