Our mission at Living Water Community Church is to inspire believers to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things, to the Glory of God and for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ.

Our vision is to build a God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated, prayer powered, diversity-loving, missions-mobilizing, family-strengthening, disciple-producing, joy-pursuing church that reaches out to Vancouver and the world (learn more here). To accomplish this we believe that our greatest obligation is to delight in God in all things and in all situations.

For we believe that God created us for His glory and that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him more »

We invite you to watch the following brief excerpt that summarizes just how God is encouraging us to reflect on the magnificence of God's creation and the importance of Christ's church.

A Passion for Purity vs. Passive Prayers
By John Piper

I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. (Matthew 5:28-29)

When you are enticed sexually,do you fight with your mind tosay no to the image and then mightily labor to fill your mind with counter-images that kill off the seductive image? "If you put to death the deeds of the body by the Spirit, you will live" (Romans 8:13). Too many people think they have struggled with temptation when they have prayed for deliverance, and hoped the desire would go away. That is too passive. Yes, God works in us to will and to do his good pleasure! But the effect is that we "work out our salvation with fear and trembling" (Philippians 2:12- 13). Gouging out your eye may be a metaphor, but it means something very violent. The brain is a "muscle" to be flexed for purity, and in the Christian it is supercharged with the Spirit ofChrist.

What this means is that we must not give a sexual image or impulse more than five seconds before we mount a violent counterattack with the mind. I mean that! Five
seconds. In the first two seconds we shout, "NO! Get out of my head!" In the next two seconds we cry out: "O God, in the name of Jesus, help me. Save me now. I am yours."

Good beginning. But then the real battle begins. This is a mind war. The absolute necessity is to get the image and the impulse out of our mind. How? Get a counter-image into the mind. Fight. Push. Strike. Don't ease up. It must be an image that is so powerful that the other image cannot survive. There are lust-destroying images and thoughts.

For example, have you ever in the first five seconds of temptation, demanded of your mind that it look steadfastly at the crucified form of Jesus Christ? Picture this. You have just seen a peek-a-boo blouse inviting further fantasy. You have five seconds. "No! Get out of my mind! God help me!" Now, immediately, demand of your mind - you can do this by the Spirit (Romans 8:13). Demand of your mind to fix its gaze on Christ on the cross. Use all your fantasizing power to see his lacerated back. Thirty-nine lashes left little flesh intact. He heaves with his breath up and down against the rough vertical beam of the cross. Each breath puts splinters into the lacerations. The Lord gasps. From time to time he screams out with intolerable pain. He tries to pull away from the wood and the massive spokes through his wrist rip into the nerve endings and he screams again with agony and pushes up with his feet to give
some relief to his wrists. But the bones and nerves in his pierced feet crush against each other with anguish and he screams again.

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FIGHTER VERSE -Proverbs 29:1
"He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing."