Luis Lopez
The Lopez Family
How have you seen God working in your life?
God has been working in my life in various ways. By the grace of God, I have spent many years enjoying, meditating, and teaching about the beautiful truth of the gospel about how we are completely justified in Christ, since He took my guilt, my sin, what I deserved on the cross. But to be honest, for months I have been meditating on the other truth of the gospel, not only did I transfer all my evil to Christ, but Christ transferred all his holiness, perfection, obedience, and purity to me. That means that the gospel not only has intellectual ramifications and the truth that makes sense of why I am one hundred percent saved and justified by Jesus. But it also has ramifications in my heart, emotions and the way of bringing me closer to God, remembering that He sees me in Christ, as Jesus tells his Father in John 17:23: “let the world know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.” Just thinking that the Father loves me as He loves Jesus refreshes my entire identity, heals my shame, my insecurities, and renews my way of approaching Him. For someone like me who is not perfect in ministry, but who from time to time falls into the temptation of putting my identity there, this truth leads me to repent and enjoy my new reality that I have with God and carrying out my calling.
How have you seen god working in your family?
Four months ago, my wife and I had our first child, our baby boy. It took several years of trying, the doctors told us that we were not going to be able to get pregnant, and God gave us this gift when we found out at the end of last year. On the one hand, one of the things that God spoke strongly to my wife and me during this painful process at the time, is that if we were going to have a baby, the most important thing for our son, it was not going to be for him to have very fertile parents; but that the seed of the gospel bore fruit in our hearts, and to be able to be fruitful in the way that God wanted in us and through us, whether through a biological child, or spiritual children. Now that the Lord has given us this privilege, He is showing us a new facet of being able to know him as our Father. To me in a particular way, He has shown me how patient God is with me. There are many things that I do for the good of my son, but because he still does not know how to speak, nor understand my words, he does not listen to me. But I have no excuse, I do know how to read the Bible, and although I understand the reasoning, many times I don't pay attention to His words, and it reminds me of what Romans 2:4 says: “Don't you realize how kind, tolerant and patient God is with you? Doesn't that mean anything to you? Don't you see that God's goodness is to guide you to repent and forsake your sin?”
How have you seen god working in your church?
We are a very new church, so the particular way I have been seeing God working in our church is that people are realizing that the Jesus and Christianity that they rejected years ago in their minds, was not the Jesus of the Bible, it was a Christianity invented in their minds, and not the true one. People are surprised when we explain the gospel to them, when they see the ramifications this has on their identity, purpose, and the way they live any area of their lives. But above all, the way of them seeing and knowing God. This has been wonderful, in a very short time we already had our first four baptisms, and God willing starting next year we will have another five. It has been beautiful to see my core team, understanding that this is not only my job, it is everyone's job. The church, from its very identity, is a body of missionary people, knowing, experiencing and sharing the gospel, and that has been beautiful.
church name
Nucleo Church
church email
gallardolopez90@gmail.com
What is your church’s mission?
VISION: “To be a community impacted by the Gospel that expands the kingdom of God in the city of Monterrey to see its spiritual, social, and cultural renewal and transformation.”
MISSION: “Create and build a community in the grace of God committed to the mission of Jesus that is His Church: knowing, experiencing, and sharing the Gospel.”