The New Church

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The New Church helps people draw closer to the Lord God Jesus Christ, sharing His power and His peace. It is a religion to be lived, not just believed.

The New Church is a Christian denomination that addresses questions about God, love, and life after death with answers that make sense. New Church beliefs are of course founded in the Word of God in the Old and New Testaments, and provide new insight into its meaning. Some of our core beliefs:
• There is one loving, personal God, and He is the Lord Jesus Christ.
• The life of religion is to obey the Ten Commandments, and to act honestly and faithfully in our daily occupations.
• The Word of God (the Bible) has a deeper meaning, teaching about a person’s spiritual development.
• Each of us continues life as a complete person immediately after death of the body.
• God does not judge us, but we judge ourselves by what we love and how we live.
• People of every faith are saved if they live sincerely according to their religion. A fuller discussion of New Church beliefs can be seen at https://newchurch.org/get-answers/spiritual-concepts/

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The goal of this page is to help people draw closer to the Lord God Jesus Christ. Comments are both welcome and appreciated. Discussions should be respectful and not toxic or offensive. If your comment is overly negative, solicitous, preaching, or is an inappropriate tangent it may be deleted. If you suspect that your comment is likely to be removed and still feel it important to make, feel free to message us, or you may email any comments to [email protected].

10/30/2026

Truth for the sake of truth is nothing, but truth informed by love is everything.

10/29/2026

Spirit can be thought of as presence. It is the way you influence a room, a person, a mood. How much are you actively considering your presence and the way it affects others? Sometimes we don't realize how much our spirit changes a space.

10/28/2026

"I have been allowed to talk with some people in the other life who had distanced themselves from the affairs of the world in order to live in devotions and sanctity, and also with some who had mortified themselves in various ways because they thought this was renouncing the world and taming the desires of the flesh. However, most of them had wound up with a gloomy kind of life from this and had distanced themselves from that life of active thoughtfulness that can be led only in the world, so they could not associate with angels. The life of angels is cheerful and blessed. It consists of worthwhile activities that are deeds of thoughtfulness. Particularly, people who have led a life withdrawn from worldly concerns are aflame with a sense of their own worth and constantly crave heaven. They think of heavenly joy as their reward, with no knowledge whatever of what heavenly joy actually is. When they are with angels and are let into that joy — which has no sense of merit and consists of activities and public duties and in bliss at the good that is accomplished through them — they are as bewildered as though they were seeing something totally alien to their faith. Since they are not open to these joys, they move off and associate with people who have led the same kind of life in the world.
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[3] I have mentioned all this to let it be known that the life that leads to heaven is not one of withdrawal from the world but a life in the world, and that a life of piety apart from a life of thoughtfulness (which is possible only in the world) does not lead to heaven at all. Rather, it is a life of thoughtfulness, a life of behaving honestly and fairly in every duty, every affair, every task, from our deeper nature and therefore from a heavenly source. The source of this life is within us when we act honestly and fairly because doing so is in accord with divine laws. This life is not hard, but a life of piety apart from a life of thoughtfulness is hard. Still, this latter life leads away from heaven as surely as people believe it leads to heaven. "

10/27/2026

You might be surprised to learn that this is the belief that gets us the most negative comments on social media. Why is the idea of heaven being open to everyone so controversial?

10/23/2026

"Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying..." Matthew 13:3-9

10/22/2026

Why doesn't the Lord do miracles today?

10/21/2026

"Created, finite things may be said to have reality and manifestation, substance and form, life, and even love and wisdom, but all of these are created and finite. The reason we can say they have these attributes is not that they possess any divinity but that they are in Divinity and there is Divinity in them. Anything that has been created is intrinsically without soul and dead, but it is given a soul and brought to life by the presence of Divinity in it, and by its dwelling in Divinity." Divine Love and Wisdom 53

10/20/2026

As cunning as vipers and as gentle as doves.

10/16/2026

"The way which leads to life."

10/15/2026

What is the root of evil?

Address

1100 Cathedral Road
Bryn Athyn, PA
19009

Telephone

+12675082124

Website

http://www.newchurch.org/

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