Join us for a series on our mission to kick off 2026!

Before we return to Mark, we want to refocus as a church on the mission God has placed on us. We are called to Behold God in worship, to Belong in community serving and worshiping together, and Be Sent on a mission with the gospel in all forms. Our prayer is that will set us on a course to see Christ magnified through RHC this 2026.

For those who want to dig deeper, see our pastor’s notes below for additional study and discussion questions designed for our Gospel Community Groups.

 

Isaiah 6 shows us what happens when a human being truly encounters the living God. Isaiah sees the Lord seated on His throne, high and lifted up, sovereign even in a time of national uncertainty after King Uzziah’s death. The seraphim cry out “Holy, holy, holy,” declaring that God is utterly set apart, incomparable, and beyond anything our language can express. His glory fills all creation. This vision reminds us that while earthly leaders rise and fall, the Lord reigns eternally, and there is not a single square inch of existence that does not belong to Him.

Standing before such holiness, Isaiah is undone. He doesn’t simply feel fear; he realizes the moral beauty of God and therefore the ugliness of his own sin. “Woe is me,” he cries, confessing that he is unclean. But the God who ruins him also restores him. A seraph brings a coal from the altar to cleanse Isaiah’s lips, declaring his guilt removed and his sin atoned for. Grace arrives from outside of Isaiah, provided by God Himself. This is always God’s way: the One who exposes our need also provides the remedy.

Then God asks, “Whom shall I send?” and Isaiah responds, “Here am I. Send me.” The cleansed prophet is now commissioned. He doesn’t respond out of willpower or religious duty, but because encountering the Holy God has completely reshaped his desires and identity. His life now belongs to the One he has seen. Scripture later tells us that the One Isaiah saw was Christ Himself: the same Jesus who reigns in glory in Isaiah 6 is the suffering servant pierced for our transgressions in Isaiah 53. A God-sized offense required a God-sized atonement, and Christ willingly became that sacrifice.

So the pattern becomes clear: God reveals. We confess. God cleanses. Then God sends. When we behold Christ in His holiness and His mercy, we are changed. We see our sin, but we also see our Savior. And like Isaiah, we are freed to say, “Here am I. Send me,” not because we are worthy, but because He is. Until the day we see what Isaiah saw, our calling is to continually behold Him, rest in His grace, and live as His sent people in the world that already belongs to Him.

Questions:

  1. Have you had an Isaiah moment?  A moment: 1. Being unraveled before him? 2. Being restored from being undone? 3. Saying, “Here am I. Send me.” 4.Through which you see everything else in your life?
  2. “You only exist because God is thinking about you.” What does this inspire in you? Confidence, trust, & humility? Fear, anger, or bitterness?
  3. You leave a sermon blessed, not because Joe is a good preacher (he is–Rob writing this), but because you beheld the living God. What are ways we behold God? How can we remain in a place of beholding?
  4. How can we learn to say, “Holy Holy Holy” when we don’t understand God or what is happening to us?
  5. John 12 says Isaiah saw Jesus’ glory. How does that change the way we read Isaiah 6? We read Isaiah 53? The mission we have to share with the world?
  6. What’s the difference between being afraid of God’s power and being undone by His holiness? Have you ever had your tolerance for sin suddenly exposed? What brought that clarity?
  7. God’s presence is sufficient for all things, but he did not set up the church to operate in isolation. We are called to live together. How can we behold God better in community, than by ourselves?

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