Livingston United Methodist Church

Livingston United Methodist Church Livingston United Methodist Church is a small church that shows God's love by serving others.

The Great Commission is Trinitarian at its core, and the Trinity is the original image of difference-in-unity. Three dis...
05/27/2026

The Great Commission is Trinitarian at its core, and the Trinity is the original image of difference-in-unity. Three distinct persons, one God. Not uniformity, but communion. Paul’s benediction in his letter to the church in Corinth lands like a gift: grace, love, communion. These are not abstractions; they are the shape of what God is, and therefore the shape of what we are sent to embody. This is the theological foundation for everything that follows.

We will explore what it means that God’s own inner life is relational—that before anything was created, before any human being drew breath, God was already in relationship. This is a God who does not need us to complete the divine life, but who chooses to include us anyway. That is grace. And we are sent in the name of that grace, that love, that communion. Go. I am with you always.

To watch online, visit https://www.youtube.com/. To learn more about Livingston UMC, please visit us at livingstonchurch.org.

Join us on Sunday as we celebrate the birth of the Church - the moment God's Spirit descended upon the earliest Jesus fo...
05/20/2026

Join us on Sunday as we celebrate the birth of the Church - the moment God's Spirit descended upon the earliest Jesus followers like a mighty wind, enlivening them to continue the work of sharing the good news! To watch online, visit https://www.youtube.com/

To learn more about Livingston UMC, please visit us at livingstonchurch.org.

Jesus prays—not preaches, not commands, prays—that his people would be one. This is the prayer of someone who knows how ...
05/13/2026

Jesus prays—not preaches, not commands, prays—that his people would be one. This is the prayer of someone who knows how hard it will be. 1 Peter speaks to a community under pressure, tempted to scatter, and says: "Resist, stay firm, hold on." Faith communities need to remember that unity is not easy or natural—it is spiritual work. It requires humility, endurance, and a willingness to stay when leaving would be easier. But this unity is not about uniformity or keeping the peace at any cost. It is the kind of oneness that comes from shared suffering, shared hope, and shared love. As we head into Pentecost, we are reminded that we do so as people who have chosen, again, to stay together. To watch online, visit https://www.youtube.com/

To learn more about Livingston UMC, please visit us at livingstonchurch.org.

Paul walks into a city full of altars and does not lead with condemnation; he leads with curiosity. He finds the inscrip...
05/06/2026

Paul walks into a city full of altars and does not lead with condemnation; he leads with curiosity. He finds the inscription, “To an Unknown God,” and says, essentially, "Let me introduce you." This posture is radical. It assumes, and rightfully so, that the Spirit has been at work in places the church has not yet reached, in people the church has not yet met. John 14 reinforces this: the Advocate will be with the community, guiding them into all truth. Community cannot be insular; it must always be moving outward, always discovering that God arrived first. Where are the neighborhoods, movements, or people where you have been surprised to find grace already present?

To watch online, visit https://www.youtube.com/. To learn more about Livingston UMC, please visit us at livingstonchurch.org.

Peter reaches into the Psalms and Isaiah to reframe the community’s identity around a rejected stone. What the builders ...
04/29/2026

Peter reaches into the Psalms and Isaiah to reframe the community’s identity around a rejected stone. What the builders threw away became the foundation. This asks a pointed question of any congregation: who have we been treating as a rejected stone? Stephen in Acts died because he named the ways the religious establishment excluded people God was trying to include. John 14 offers the counterweight: in God’s house there is room, abundant room. To watch online, visit https://www.youtube.com/.

To learn more about Livingston UMC, please visit us at livingstonchurch.org.

Acts 2:42–47 reads almost like a utopian fantasy—and maybe that is the point. Luke is not describing what always was; he...
04/22/2026

Acts 2:42–47 reads almost like a utopian fantasy—and maybe that is the point. Luke is not describing what always was; he is describing what briefly, beautifully became possible when people took resurrection seriously. They shared. They ate together. They prayed. They made sure nobody was in need. John’s Good Shepherd image deepens this: the shepherd knows each sheep by name. In Beloved Community, nobody is a number or a category; everybody is known. We hold the vision alongside the honest question of why we keep falling short of it, and what it would cost us to try again. To watch online, visit https://www.youtube.com/

To learn more about Livingston UMC, please visit us at livingstonchurch.org.

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200 E Livingston Avenue
Columbus, OH
43215

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(614) 224-2006

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