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.

06/21/2026

Devotion Summary for 06.21.26
1 John 3:11-18
The Heart of Resurrection: How?

1)Many self identify as Christians but don’t look at their words but their actions. If God is our father, we will look like him and live like him. One time, Jesus accused religious leaders of being like their true father, the devil because they kill and destroy. In this passage, John warns us of not having Cain as our father by hating and destroying.

2)John tells us that those who love have God as their father while those who hate do not; especially those who hate their brother who’s good actions reveal our faults and sins. If we hate, we are doing it wrong.

3)The call to love goes deeper as we are called to a specific kind of love: sacrificial love which leads us to the cross for others. We are to give life, not take life. We are to lay down our lives at the cross and not build crosses to kill others. This is the love Jesus has for us.

4)The call to love goes even deeper as we are called to sacrificial love in the day to day. Some are prepared to die or take a bullet for others but unwilling to give of their possessions to love people in need. Jesus gave not just his death for us but his life. We can help others or just watch them struggle.

5)One thing that does not prove we belong to God is if people hate us. There maybe many reasons for people to hate us and they maybe right to hate us. In this context, we know we belong to God when people hate us because of the people we choose to love including the “wrong” people, our enemies and even the enemies of God; any people who we have made the other. Jesus goes to the cross for them and all.

06/14/2026

Devotion Summary for 06.14.26
1 John 3:1-10
The Heart of Resurrection: Lavish

1)Who can you tell who your father/mother is? There were two sets of parents competing in the church; those who were teaching us who the Father really is; and those who were teaching the opposite or what was against or anti- what God was like: Anti-christs. We show who our father is by the way we live and the way we look

2)Those who have God as their father will be thrilled when he returns because they are on the same side. God is their champion. They will not be ashamed because they know the love that has been lavished on them. Faith is about love and peace but it is a specific kind of love-not merely friendship or hanging out love…but sacrificial love. In this love, we are safe, valued and truly belong to God.

3)Anti-christs cannot offer this kind of sacrificial love because they do not go to the cross for others and don’t teach others to go to the cross for others. All the true mothers and fathers teach the sacrificial love that has been lavished on us.

4)Those who have God as their father also do not continue sinning or hating people. It is not about being perfect or sinless but an orientation that wants to do the right thing, wants to know what God wants and wants to be like Jesus. Those who do not know the love of God often don’t have interest in doing the things God calls us to do. They may even resist. They gravitate to the love of the world: lust of the flesh and eyes and the pride of life

5)It is the love of God that is lavished upon us that transforms us but we also need the fathers and mothers of the church to lavish love on us to make the love of God more real or even tangible; this love also has a profound effect on us

06/10/2026

Vision Church is delighted to welcome Pastor David Kim as our new Assistant Pastor!

Pastor David will focus on relational ministry including follow-up, discipleship, and fellowship. He looks forward to meeting current members and welcoming new attendees. He has started to get to know folks and is available to get together one on one and in small groups throughout June.

He will be traveling on a pre-planned trip to Korea with his wife Erica in July and will resume ministry in August.

Please join us in extending a heartfelt welcome to Pastor David and Erica! We are confident that God will use Pastor David mightily in our midst.

06/07/2026

Devotion Summary for 06.07.26
1 John 2:18-29
The Heart of Resurrection: Antichrists

1)Read out of context, this section of 1 John becomes a search for the super villain of our era or a search for many bad guys in our church/es. Read in context, we understand that there were false teachers leading others away from sacrificial love and faithfulness; they were against the ways of Jesus: Anti-Jesus or Anti-Christs

2)There is a temptation to demonize those we disagree with or those who oppose us but in any conflict, we are all a mix of good and bad motives and choices. Sometimes, we are the ones who do things opposed to Christ. The best posture to take is to be confessional. Those opposed to Christ rarely confess or apologize.

3)John reminds us that we don’t need to fear teachers intimidating us with new or extra teaching. We have the Holy Spirit too and can access Jesus and his teachings.

4)We are to avoid teachers who diminish the teachings and the presence of Jesus in our faith with their words and their lives. Some diminish Jesus by acting like they don’t need the messiah. Some diminish Jesus by merely name checking him but giving him very little place in our faith. John emphasizes that Jesus is real: we have heard him, seen him and experienced him

5)Those who leave and abandon other believers sometimes are anti-Jesus because they avoid the difficult tasks of reconciliation and going to the cross for others. They teach others with their lives to live the opposite way Jesus did.

6)True fathers and mothers in the faith teach faithfulness, sacrifice, going to the cross and forgiveness. It is this experience that transforms us and points us to Jesus. When we teach the opposite, we are opposed to Jesus.

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.

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