Vision Church NYC

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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.

10/25/2026

Devotion Summary for 10.25.26
1 John 5:16-20
The Heart of Resurrection: Know

1)John concludes with three things he wants us to know but uses the format of ‘we know’ to express them. The three things we know are that anyone who is born of God does not continue to sin, that we are children of God and that God has come to be with us so that we can know him. Each statement has an echo of what John has already taught

2)First, we know that as children of God, we no longer continue to sin. We walk in light and not in darkness.This does not mean that we are sinless but we do sin less. Jesus expects us to sin and has made a way for that sin to be forgiven. The signs that we are walking in the light are that we care about light and darkness, we respond when called to repent, we confess our own sins, we apologize and we go to the cross as opposed to building crosses for others.

3)We know that we are children of God whom God will protect and not let be harmed. We need this comfort living in this dark and evil world full of greed, lust and self centered pride. The promise is ultimately fulfilled in the next life but the love, the good life, the protection that God wants to give us starts in this life. He is not just legally and financially obligated to do this…he does this out of his deep love for us. The promise works as a reassurance since we already know the ending of our story.

4)Finally we know that God has come to us and we can have fellowship with him; a deep intertwining of life. He has not just come to give us knowledge but has come for us to know him personally. The prize of faith is God himself

10/18/2026

Devotion Summary for 10.18.26
1 John 5:13-17
The Heart of Resurrection: Intervention

1)God has come to give us eternal life where eternal refers to the quantity and the quality of life. He has come to give us the good stuff of life; he wants good things for us. In addition, God is listening so we can go in confidence to him to ask him for good things.

2)John applies those truths by encouraging us to pray for brothers and sisters caught in sin that is important but is not life and death; life and death situations may require direct intervention and/or prayer. With less fatal sin, John is asking us to play the long game with wrongdoing that our friend is not fully aware of. When we pray, God is bringing good things to others and changing their hearts.

3)When we are concerned about the harm or danger a friend may encounter because of wrongdoing, we often want to say something but the passage does not tell us to do that first. It tells us to pray perhaps to change hearts and to allow God to work. Sometimes when we speak, we have the wrong motives leading to things going poorly. When we speak, we want to make sure our friend knows it is out of love. Prayer helps with that.

4)A lot of people skip the prayer encouragement and want to figure out the sin that leads to death. Sins that lead to physical death may include self harm or hurting others. Many scholars think this verse refers to spiritual death and the primary sin that leads to this is not turning to God or rejecting God.

5)The big deal of the passage is that God has not come to condemn but to save. He is calling us to approach others the same way he approaches us-to help us turn back to him. Many have approached messaging sin and wrongdoing with judgment and condemnation. When we draw lines to make people the enemy and declare them as evil, the only play is destroy them. God wants to redeem them in the same way he is redeeming us.

📢 No Sunday Service – October 11!Just a reminder that we won’t be having our regular Sunday service this week as our chu...
10/08/2026

📢 No Sunday Service – October 11!

Just a reminder that we won’t be having our regular Sunday service this week as our church family gathers for our retreat at Camp DeWolfe! 🌲

We’re looking forward to a meaningful weekend of fellowship, worship, and growing together in Christ.

See you next Sunday, October 18! ❤️

10/04/2026

Devotion Summary for 10.04.26
1 John 5:10-15
The Heart of Resurrection: Confidence

1)John wants us to know that the living God has taken on flesh and become human: they have heard him, seen him and touched him. We can have fellowship with this Jesus. We can approach him because he loves us, has good things for us and he hears us

2)We are hesitant to approach God when he doubt he loves us, hears us or if we don’t think he wants to give us good things. We approach God like he’s an impersonal machine. We often think we have to guess what God’s will is for us so we can align our requests to that rather then tell him what’s on our hearts and trust him to give us good things.

3)We often preach and hear this passage impersonally either through a legal lens or a financial lens: that God has to do things for us or answer us because he has declared us righteous, that we are legally adopted or because he has paid our debts. But God hears and gives graciously because he loves us. We can share the love of God to others by also giving generously, graciously and serve out of love

4)The trouble is when God does not seem to give us good things or he seems to give us bad things and trouble. How do we understand God and live then? We approach our pain intellectually, philosophically or theologically but God wants us to approach relationally. The answers we seek and that will satisfy our hearts can only come from God himself. Sometimes the answer will be the presence and reality of God himself

09/20/2026

Devotion Summary for 09.20.26
1 John 5:1-5
The Heart of Resurrection: Callbacks

1)A Christian is someone who believes Jesus is their savior but to believe in the Bible is not merely intellectual but involves trust. We trust that Jesus has given his life and death to remove what separates us from the heavenly father. Evidence that we have come to trust Jesus is that we love people.

2)We love people because we have experienced God’s love and because we view them also as children of the heavenly father. We hate people when we view them as less than or the other…and not children of God.

3)A Christian is also someone who follows God’s commands which is a callback to earlier in the book of 1 John. What are his commands? To love others and to trust in God! Out of context, these verses can be oppressive. In context, it is to put into God’s hands what is out of our control. The reality is that almost nothing is in our control so this can become freeing.

4)Loving others can also be burdensome…when we try to do so in our own strength; but less so when we experience his love and are powered by his spirit and presence.

5)A Christian is also someone who overcomes the world. Out of context, our faith seems to be about winning. But in context, overcoming the world is no longer letting the cravings of our flesh, the lust of our eyes or the pride of life control us. When we see God clearer, all of these things fade in significance and value. We live only for things that are eternal

6)We experience and receive God’s love and presence via returning home to God in our need. At the slightest turn, God comes running to us.

09/13/2026

Devotion Summary for 09.13.26
1 John 4:16-21
The Heart of Resurrection: Fears

1)The reason why there are different kinds of Christians and why some Christians are loving and some are not is because of our relationship with our fathers: heavenly and earthly. The way we experience and know their love shapes the way we love.

2)Our earthly fathers affect our understanding of God and his love and almost every aspect of spirituality. Likely our dads were a mix of good and bad leading us to have a framework of having to earn love and having a fear of losing that love. But the love God for us is settled. We don’t have to earn it. He loves and likes us. He delights in us. Knowing this transforms our hearts from having to fear.

3)We need to learn how to love others the way God loves us by driving out fear. We create a space of freedom by refraining from condemnation, punishment and making people earn love. We listen, understand, confess our own sins and do not argue so that we can gain an audience to speak truth in love. No one cares what we know until they know that we care.

4)We practice like and love. We convey like by being helpful and useful. Likable people are aids and guides to us in life. Unlikable people are deterrents and existential threats to us. We convey love by expressing and living out deep connection and faithfulness; and looking for an opportunity to show sacrificial love. Without these elements, love is mostly talk and performative

5)We like and love these ways because Jesus lives this way and we have experienced these from him. As we live like Jesus we enter more of his like/love perfected in us

08/23/2026

Devotion Summary for 08.23.26
1 John 4:16-5:2
The Heart of Resurrection: Philadelphia

1)The reason why there are different kinds of Christians and why some Christians are loving and some are not is because of our relationship with our fathers: heavenly and earthly. The way we experience and know their love shapes the way we love.

2)(Sacrificial)love is the test of whether we know and understand God. If we do not love our brother or our sister, God says that we are liars: how can we love the one we do not see when we cannot love the one/s we can see? Also those who love the/ir father will love his children as well.

3)We make excuses for why we don’t love including claiming that we only need to love brothers and sisters; and not loving jerks and difficult people. However, God loved us while we were jerks and difficult; when we were estranged from him. He gave his life and death for us after we betrayed him

4)Our earthly fathers affect our understanding of God and his love; almost every aspect of spirituality. Likely our dads were a mix of good and bad leading us to have a framework of having to earn love and having a fear of losing that love. But the love God for us is settled. We don’t have to earn it. He loves and likes us. He delights in us. Knowing this transforms our hearts from having to fear.

5)We also love or don’t love based on our relationship and connection with others. If we see them as siblings of God, we will try to love them. If we see people as the other, disposable, deplorable or without connection or usefulness, it makes it much easier to hate them.

6)We need to know and experience the father’s love for us again through his spirit, through understanding and through living in love so that his love is made complete in us; giving us the ability to love others as the father has loved us

08/16/2026

Devotion Summary for 08.16.26
1 John 4:12-21
The Heart of Resurrection: See/n

1)John wants us to experience fellowship with the living God so that we can be transformed by his love. There are 3 ways John says we can experience more of God’s presence and love: first is by his spirit; second is by knowing his love and lastly by loving; living in love.

2)We neglect loving because it is the hardest to do; it IS hard. In fact, it is impossible without experiencing the Gospel: that God loves us.

3)Love is the test that we have come to know and experience God. If we say we love God but don’t love people, we are liars. It is impossible to love God whom we have not seen when we don’t love the people who are right in front of us.

4)If we are not loving people, what are we doing? Often we are doing God adjacent things. We like activity, the buzz of the crowd, music, control, religious stuff, appearances but not God and not people. And we are not dwelling with God in fellowship

5)If we are not loving people, then we are likely living lives for ourselves. But Jesus did not live his life this way. He did not live for himself but lived to love people and God sacrificially. When we receive his love, it transforms us to love others sacrificially.

08/02/2026

Devotion Summary for 08.02.26
1 John 4:7-12
The Heart of Resurrection: Gospel

1)Since many people self-identify as believers, we are told to test if its just talk or if their lives reflect Jesus. But testing is exhausting. A fundamentalist spirit results in no one ever being righteous or ever being woke enough. The solution is to test ourselves first: to take the plank out of our own eyes before we address the speck in the eye of others. We are to be confessional people first; confessing our own sins

2)The biggest test is love…whether we love sacrificially. Love is not the only attribute of a believer but it is the baseline and price of entry. When we don’t love, we show that we don’t know God or his love. His love is sacrificial: God the father sends his only son for us; Jesus gives his life and death for us on our behalf.

3)There are so many things to do a believer that we forget the Gospel that powers our ability to follow him. The Gospel is that God loves us! It is not about our love for God. Our hearts are exposed that we do not love God that much but good news! He loves us. We need to receive this love in order for his love to be transforming.

4)We need to receive, know, experience and feel his love in human and divine ways; human and spiritual ways. We need to receive his love through his people. We need to receive his love directly from him. We need to receive his love when his spirit works through his people to us.

5)After we receive his love, we are able to love others and when we do, people can know, experience and feel God’s love through us. No one has ever seen God directly but through the love of his people, God becomes real.

07/26/2026

Devotion Summary for 07.26.26
1 John 4:1-6
The Heart of Resurrection: Worldview

1)We were warned not merely to believe anyone who claims to be a believer with their words. We are to test by their lives. Those who affirm that Jesus is God, from God and took on flesh to become human with their lives are believers. Those who deny this Jesus have the orientation which is anti-God, anti-Jesus aka anti-Christ

2)Both the spiritual side and the human side of Jesus are important in our faith and understanding. Most believers emphasize one or the other. Some are overly spiritual and some are overly human while neglecting the other.

3)We are told not to be intimidated by those who reject Jesus because we have God in us to help us. What God helps us with is not winning arguments and/or debates. What God helps us with is giving us the ability to represent him well-his love, his presence, his power; sometimes this involves taking a loss to reflect the loss Jesus lived to save us.

4)Those who do not embrace Jesus as fully God and fully human have a worldly perspective which John describes as living for the lust of the flesh-obtaining whatever our bodies crave whatever the consequences; the lust of the eyes-obtaining whatever we see and desire whatever the consequences; and the pride of life-the need to win and lord it over others.

5)The need to win and lord our greatness over others infects both non-believers and believers. Winning and being better than others is rampant but this does not come from God. Jesus did not live for self but became a servant; took a loss and descended the ladder to benefit and save the world. If we follow Jesus correctly, we will not be winners in the eyes of the world: we will be lowly servants. We will use our God-given gifts to benefit and elevate others; not to promote self

6)The call to test faith may lead to trolling and feeling superior: no one is ever righteous or woke enough. The solution is to test ourselves first: to take the plank out of our own eyes before we address the speck in the eye of others. We are to be confessional people first; confessing our own sins

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152 E. 34th Street
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