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The Garden Church (formerly Reality Church Boston) is a community of everyday people on a journey to be shaped by and share Jesus’ love in Boston and beyond. Follow along for our weekly Sunday teachings.
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Life in the Light | Proof of Life (opens the original)
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Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: 1 John 2:3–10 How do you know your faith is real? In this sermon from 1 John 2, Pastor Josh suggests that the answer doesn't lie in how hard you believe or how many good deeds you stack up. Like the weather vane on Faneuil Hall, love doesn't steer God's life toward us — it shows which way the wind is already blowing. Real faith is about our direction, and it always moves outward toward the people around us.
Life in the Light | Nothing Left to Hide (opens the original)
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Teacher: Mandi Paszek Text: 1 John 1:8–2:2 We all default to justifying, minimizing, or ignoring what's wrong in us, but in the Gospels, Jesus meets sinners with welcome instead of condemnation. In this sermon from 1 John 1:8–2:2, Mandi argues that naming our sin isn't about shame; it's about finally seeing reality clearly. When we stop hiding—from God and from people we trust—something breaks loose, and grace comes in. Confession is our way back to freedom.
Life in the Light | Close Enough to Touch (opens the original)
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Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: 1 John 1:1–7 How do we know our faith is the real thing? John's answer in 1 John 1 cuts against our instinct to reduce faith to one piece—being moral, knowing Scripture, feeling good, working for justice. Instead, John says the life he's passing on is one he has actually heard, seen, and touched: God has come close, and real faith is less a flawless standard than a direction. Turn toward the light, and the rest grows downstream.
Be My Witness | A Beautiful Life (opens the original)
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Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: 1 Peter 2:9–12 and 3:15–16 In the final sermon of the Be My Witness series, Pastor Josh asks a question that's easy to dodge: when people look at our lives, what do they actually see? Peter's answer to what brings people into the Kingdom isn't a sharper argument or a slicker pitch—it's a good life . The Greek word for "good" here, kalos , also means beautiful: a life so good that people stop and wonder what they're missing.
Be My Witness | Share The Good News (opens the original)
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Teacher: Josh Wilson Text: 2 Corinthians 5:14–21 We tend to treat faith like a favorite ice cream flavor—true for me, maybe not for you—but Paul calls us ambassadors, people entrusted with news too good to keep to ourselves. In this sermon from 2 Corinthians 5, Josh names a claim a lot of us quietly resist: the good news of Jesus was never meant to be kept private. In fact, when we keep the news to ourselves, we often withhold something good from someone else.
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