If we lived in Portland...

...we would attend The Well (TheWellChurch.com). We joined our friends Fritz and Shannon Liedtke (FritzPhoto.com) here and were blown away by this wonderful community. The average age is about 30, though in a Mothers Day competition for a Starbucks gift card we learned that the oldest mom is 75. There's great art everywhere. The body seems to be a reflection of the racial and socioeconomic diversity of the city as a whole. The pastor, who used to live in Tunisia, doesn't look like he's 30 yet. He's filled with passion and totally connected to the scripture (Eph 4:25-29) and to the congregation. Before delving into how we ought to live, he made it crystal clear that living a good life in order to earn God's acceptance is just as wrong as living totally for self: The biblical reason for righteous living is as a reaction to what Christ has done for us to liberate us from sin. Click "My passion" in the right margin of RichDrama.com to find out more about that.