Vision Church NYC

Vision Church NYC Mission: Loving Jesus through friendship, community, and restoration. Following Jesus through service, mission, and transformation. We meet at 152 E. 34th St.

An Asian-American, non-denominational Christian church in New York City. Vision Church meets on Sundays at 3:00 PM for worship. During the week, we disperse to smaller, more intimate gatherings in neighborhoods throughout the city. We invite you to join us in wrestling with faith, to tell God's story, and to live a life beyond ourselves.

05/31/2026

Devotion Summary for 05.31.26
1 John 2:12-17
The Heart of Resurrection: Loves

1)Read out of context, this section of 1 John becomes another to-do list; identify your stage, do those things. Read in context, its about who or what we love

2)When we love the world, we find that we stop loving people. When we love people, we find that we love the world less. The love of the world is the lust of our impulses, the lust of what we see and crave and the arrogance of life. Lust is not love. Lust is about taking and using. Love is about giving and serving.

3)The message of our world, culture and city vibe is the love of the world! Get yours! Get what you want and what you deserve. It's so embedded, that we cannot see what’s wrong especially since it feels good. But we cannot love people or God and love the world at the same time. We cannot climb ladders and love people at the same time. When we chase this world, we miss out on the next.

4)We have never considered the temporary nature of chasing happiness. It is fleeting and doesn’t last leaving us addicted to chasing the next high. Happiness is not the whole but the part. We are called to chase the whole and the eternal: love of people and love of God. Relationships and love are the lasting richness of life

5)We chase relationships not by taking but by giving; sowing the seeds of hospitality and generosity. It is hard to create a home for ourselves but we can do is create a home for others and by doing so, it becomes a home for us too.

6)We are motivated to love others when we have experienced the forgiveness and love of the Father. Human mothers and fathers in the faith encourage us to receive that love and share that love with others.

05/24/2026

Devotion Summary for 05.24.26
1 John 2:9-17
The Heart of Resurrection: Fathers

1)John changes structure in chapter 2 addressing 3 groups: children, fathers, young men. While men were often addressed first, the passages are understood to apply to not just males and children. Maturity and age groups John is concerned about are the elders, the young and those who are in between.

2)In context, John talks about loving people before this section and not loving the world after this section. John is concerned about what we love. When we love the world, the lust of our impulses, the lust of what we see and crave and the arrogance of life, we often stop loving people. The reverse is also true, when we love people, we don’t love the lust and pride the world is calling us to take up

3)Children can apply to all of us. We are all children of God and John addresses us as his dear children. We become children of God when we have experienced God’s forgiveness and come to know the father.

4)Fathers/Mothers/Elder members of the church have known God for a long time and can teach others how to know God, know his love and know his forgiveness.

5)Young wo/men have started to live out their faith and overcome the evil of the world. God’s word is starting to live in them. They propel and invigorate the church with their energy.

6)John is not just concerned with stage of life and contributing from that tier. He is concerned that people have stopped loving people. He reminds them of how the Father has loved them and how fathers/mothers can teach that love. He reminds them of how Jesus, the son has come to offer forgiveness; does not love the world but spent his life loving us

05/17/2026

Devotion Summary for 05.17.26
1 John 2:1-11
The Heart of Resurrection: Hates

1)John uses simple language and imagery which upon meditation and reflection yield deeper truths and application especially as he intertwines the themes. The application of the passage is easy to understand: when we love, we walk in the light, follow Jesus and follow his commands. When we hate, we are blind and walk in the darkness and do not know God. The question is how to love and forgive?

2)We are able to love and forgive when we experience love and forgiveness from God. This is the sign we know God and are living right. We receive these realities through confession and as God extends grace to us.

3)We forgive and love to the degree we have experienced it from God and others. When we cannot forgive and love, we must do the actions of forgiveness and love; the feelings come later. We may not be able to move our hearts but sometimes we can extend our hands in forgiveness.

4)The commandment to love is an old commandment but also a new one because Jesus elevates it. We are to love by sacrifice and going to the cross for each other. He gives his life for his enemies.

5)Sometimes we have to laugh and forget to be freed. When we remember and meditate on hate, we are the ones being poisoned; hatred is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.

6)Deep hurt needs healing. An ounce of hurt needs an ounce of love to be healed. This is where fellowship with God and others is needed. As we draw closer to others, we receive love and are healed of our hurts

7)Soft hearted people often apply the call to forgive by allowing emotionally hurtful and even predatory people back into their lives. We are to forgive but some people we must not allow in our proximity to hurt us again. Forgiveness does not mean placing ourselves in vulnerable positions again.

05/10/2026

Devotion Summary for 05.10.26
1 John 2:1-10
The Heart of Resurrection: Commandments?

1)John wants us to be in deep fellowship with God and each other. The path to deep fellowship is to speak the truth, walk in the light and to follow God’s commandments to walk like Jesus and to love one another.

2)Before we dive deeper into what to do, we are reminded that we are loved. John’s message is spoken in the tone of a loving father to his dear children. We are also reminded it is because of God’s love that we respond with obedience. We follow his commandments because we are loved.

3)Sometimes believers shy away from obedience, commandments and rules to avoid legalism or the appearance of cultish behavior; but love involves boundaries, rules and action. Love is manifested in living out of rules. Rules/actions are how we demonstrate love.

4)When you love someone, you look for the ways they want to be loved; you do the things they want; do the things they ask you to do; and we avoid the things they ask us not to do.

5)God hopes that we will follow but does not expect us to perfectly follow. When we do not, he provides a way to be forgiven. Jesus himself is our advocate and lawyer on our behalf. He is the atoning sacrifice for us all.

6)It is the experience of love and forgiveness that changes us and motivates us to obey God.

05/03/2026

Devotion Summary for 05.03.26
1 John 1
The Heart of Resurrection: Light

1)1 John is a good post resurrection book. John testifies that God himself has come to us and he and the disciples have seen, heard and touched this God. The goal is fellowship with others and with God; these things would make John happy.

2)Fellowship is a diminished word. It is not merely hanging out, eating together or doing activities(religious or otherwise); though you do need a lot of casual and intentional time together. Fellowship is the deep intertwining of lives where you rejoice when others rejoice and weep when others weep.

3)To have fellowship we must be transparent and tell the truth. When we hide or lie, we create barriers to connection to God and others. But when we share the truth about ourselves and confess, we are deeply connected.

4)To have fellowship with God, we must walk in the light. John uses simple language and imagery which over time and reflection yields deeper and deeper truths. To walk in the light is to walk in truth, walk in God’s way, walk the way Jesus walked and walk in the good. What’s good? To walk in darkness is to walk in evil, walk in sin, walk in what’s wrong. Walking is not just knowing or standing but implies movement, direction, destination and following.

5)How do we know if we are walking in the light? We care about the light. We care about the direction of our lives. Those who walk in darkness do not think about these things. Walking in the light does not mean escaping the world. Jesus enters the world, enters into the mud and messiness but still walks in the light.

6)We cannot outrun the darkness because the darkness is inside of us. We cannot avoid sin entirely; in fact God expects us to sin but he is faithful to forgive and purify us when we confess. Faith is a lifelong journey of learning to walk in the light in a dark world

04/19/2026

Devotion Summary for 04.19.26
1 John 1
The Heart of Resurrection: Goals

1)Hosea is a good lent and easter weekend book: God calls Hosea to love his adulterous pr******te wife as a parable of his love for his straying people. Hosea pays the redemption price to bring his beloved home. The goal is never condemnation but redemption, restoration and homecoming

2)1 John is a good post resurrection book. John testifies that God himself has come to us and he and the disciples have seen, heard and touched this God. The goal is fellowship with others and with God

3)Fellowship is a diminished word. It is not merely hanging out, eating together or doing activities(religious or otherwise); though you do need a lot of casual and intentional time together. Fellowship is the deep intertwining of lives where you rejoice when others rejoice and weep when others weep.

4)We rob ourselves of fellowship by not sharing our lives with each other or even God. We usually struggle and suffer alone not allowing others to walk with us; not inviting God to walk with us.

5)The key to fellowship is transparency and truth telling. When we hide or lie, we create barriers to connection to God and others. But when we share the truth about ourselves and confess, we are deeply connected. Often we only invite people/God into part of our lives like the foyer or living room of our hearts but not the basement, attic, bedroom or kitchen where more truth is hidden.

6)With God, we must remember that He is safe and our truth is always met with restoration, redemption and fellowship. With people, we need to take a risk in sharing but the more we deeply share and confess, the greater chance of fellowship and connection with others.

04/05/2026

Devotion Summary for 04.05.26
Hosea 14:5-9
The Father's Broken Heart: The Destination is Restoration

1)At the end of Hosea and on Good Friday, God calls us to come home. We have wandered away and rebelled against God but he still woos us back.

2)Our expectation of coming home is colored by our own families and home lives. God welcomes us with joy and lavishes his love upon our return home to him.

3)In the New Testament, the key story of being welcomed home is the story of the prodigal son where God has been waiting for us and at the slightest turn, he comes running to us and lavishes his love on us. In Hosea, God promises to welcome us home by healing us, loving us freely, forgiving us quickly, refreshing us us, growing us, establishing us, and restoring us.

4)When we return home we are pledging to no longer turn to idols or trust in false hopes and false gods.

5)The goal has always been redemption and restoration and not judgment and condemnation. God is quick to call us his people, his beloved and his children. Jesus’s death and resurrection secures our welcome home to redemption and restoration.

6)We are to welcome others home with the same goal of redemption and restoration.

Easter Sunday Service
Sunday, April 5 • 3:00 PMHe is risen!Come celebrate the joy and hope of Easter with us—we’d love t...
03/31/2026

Easter Sunday Service
Sunday, April 5 • 3:00 PM

He is risen!

Come celebrate the joy and hope of Easter with us—we’d love to have you there. All are welcome.

Tea and snacks will be available at 2:30 PM.

Dinner will be served following the service. RSVP for dinner via Slack.

Good Friday Service Friday, April 3 • 6:00 PM Join us for a special joint service with the Armenian Evangelical Church...
03/31/2026

Good Friday Service
Friday, April 3 • 6:00 PM

Join us for a special joint service with the Armenian Evangelical Church.

Dinner will be served following the service.

Please arrive early and RSVP for dinner via Slack.

03/29/2026

Devotion Summary for 03.28.26
Hosea 13:4-16
The Father's Broken Heart: The Good, the Bad and The Mercy

1)Hosea is a good Lent book as it calls us to repentance and back to God. Hosea is also a good book for our times as it seems to be speaking to us in this period of history. The people of God have rebelled from God claiming to be rich and not in need. They commit violence and bring chaos; are involved in regime change; steal; kill; lie and depend on military strength for security.

2)God answers by saying that while we are rich…he is God. We still need him to save us and he has saved us. Previously, when we were enslaved, he came to save us. He views us like his children and remembers caring for us and feeding us; raising us up. But when we were full and rich, we walked away from God

3)Judgement is real, harsh and coming to those who bring death and chaos as the fruit of their lives. The price for sin and evil is death. The people of God have asked for a king because they no longer want to follow God.

4)We recoil from talk of judgment from God thinking no one deserves the harshness God promises but that is not entirely true. We all have a sense that some people deserve judgment but we just disagree on who deserves it. We all believe some people deserve hell but we disagree who should be there. God will be the final, rightful just judge.

5)Even in judgment and death, God seeks to save us. He will provide a way to be saved even from death taking away the sting and pain of death. As Christians, we see Jesus’s death as our substitute saving us from the judgment of death so that we can be welcomed home.

6)The promise of Jesus is an offer. Some continue in violence and chaos and they will not receive compassion. Another reason we recoil from judgment talk is because we think we are exempt and not as bad as others. Salvation is for those who confess their own sins and see their need for the forgiveness of Jesus

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152 E. 34th Street
New York, NY
10016

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3pm - 6:30pm

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